Theocritus
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Recent papers in Theocritus
Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides’ Bacchae . As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the “foreign” god Dionysus and his... more
The full text is available here http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18851/18544 Many similar subjects can be traced in world literature; among them is nature since it belongs to man/nature binary opposition. The... more
In this paper, I analyze the way men and animals interact in the Ancient Greek and Roman Bucolic. First, I enter the bucolic matrix (generic concept and functionnement), I then explain how humanity, bestiality and divinity mingle and,... more
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Les Idylles de Théocrite témoignent dans leur diversité même d'une vive conscience du chaos qui règne dans le monde et de la souffrance désabusée qui ronge l'individu. Le microcosme bucolique, façonné par le poète, est une réponse... more
La pratique poétique de Théocrite dans ses Idylles et la technique vocale et musicale d’Oum Kalthoum procèdent d’une même esthétique, celle de la boucle ; par le jeu des répétitions et des reprises, modulées par l’art savant de la... more
This paper examines how Golden Age imagery in Alexandrian court poetry is connected to the Ptolemaic ideology of kingship and empire. The paper first reviews the use of the motif of a Golden Age in court poetry -- especially the image of... more
This paper concerns the meta-poetic features characterising two epigrams by Alcaeus of Messene, 16 G-P and 11 G-P. Firstly (pp. 11-17), it intends to demonstrate, by means of etymological analysis, how the deep meaning of 16 G-P, namely... more
A study oon the reception of Greek Hellenistic technopagenia and of the Medieval genre of visual poetry (carmen cancellatum or versus intextus) in Renaissance and early Baroque poetics and literary practice
Very extended version of the paper presented at the conference "Alexander's Legacy", including a commentary of all the texts which could not be included in the shorter book version (here:... more
Abstract Il personaggio di Dafni, affascinante per i suoi risvolti religiosi e folclorici, assurge a dignità letteraria con Teocrito, che ne fa la figura fondante del nuovo genere da lui creato, la poesia bucolica, con la narrazione della... more
Like all the great Hellenistic authors, Theocritus is a very conscious heir of the rich and variegated Greek poetic tradition. He recreated and transformed it; he dispensed with its more customary features, trivialised by time and... more
The full text is available here http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18851/18544 Many similar subjects can be traced in world literature; among them is nature since it belongs to man/nature binary opposition. The American... more
Este livro reúne traduções portuguesas de Teócrito conhecidas até à data da sua publicação.
Abstract. The character of Daphnis, who has intriguing significance in folklore and religion, becomes an important literary figure in Theocritus, who, in his narrative of Daphnis’ death, makes him the founding figure of his new genre,... more
This essay follows the previous book "Traduções Portuguesas de Teócritos", gathering and presenting some Theocritus' Portuguese translations not included in the volume.
"Il contributo offre un saggio di edizione critica dell’Exegesis in canonem iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica (acrostico e irmo dell’ode prima). Al testo critico sono premessi cenni sulle vicende dell’opera in età moderna, ma... more
Abstract. Il difficile brano di Virg. ecl. 10, 50-51, più volte indagato dagli studiosi, che ne hanno dato interpretazioni anche assai divergenti, può essere letto come una sintesi delle idee e del procedimento sviluppati nell’intera... more
"Il contributo condensa i primi dieci anni di studi condotti dall’autrice sull’Exegesis in canonem iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica, fornendone un sintetico bilancio in lingua inglese, ad uso della comunità scientifica internazionale.... more
Helius Eobanus Hessus was the first German to publish a collection of Latin eclogues, as he states in the beginning of his Bucolicon Idyllia from 1509. With a focus on Hessus's own considerations of conventions and poetics in... more
The ‘hierarchy of herdsmen’ in pastoral (cowherd > shepherd > goatherd) as discussed by ancient critics of Theocritus and Virgil was an important facet of ancient readers’ engagement with this literature; it was known to imperial authors... more