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Ahern, Liam Thomas. "The Poet’s Eye: Autopsy and Authority in Early Greek Poetry." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13510.
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Traditionally associated with the intellectual revolution of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. and especially a hallmark of the historiographical authors Herodotus and Thucydides, earlier engagements with the concept of autopsy are often seen as self-explanatory and responding to a basic human sensibility, that is, “I have seen it for myself and therefore know it”. This thesis instead engages with poetic autopsy on its own terms. I examine the rhetorical function of autopsy, its role in the creation of authority and legitimacy. I enquire, in some ways, into the cultural contingency of autopsy, but only in so far as it reveals the structures of authority in and around early Greek poetry. Divided into two chapters, this thesis takes a holistic view towards the study of Greek poetry, taking into account not only the texts as we have them, but also their surrounding apparatus. The first chapter looks at the rhetorical strategies of poetic language in regards to autoptic claims, both by the narrator and by figures internal to the text. The second chapter considers the world outside the text through an analysis of paratexts and what I have termed extratext (that is performance context, biographical works, local tradition and early reception). I consider how these theatres of poetic representation lead to new readings of autopsy in the corpus at hand. I ultimately argue for a reassessment of the heritage of historiography and a more complex reading of the rhetorical place of epistemological thought in early Greek poetry.
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Giannakopoulou, Aglaia. "Ancient Greek sculpture in modern Greek poetry, 1860-1960." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322258.
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Cazzato, Vanessa. "Imaginative worlds in Greek lyric poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559804.
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The thesis examines the imagery of Archaic Greek lyric poetry and its relation to the 'here and now' and to the implied context of performance. Chapter One sets out the conceptual programme and establishes a critical vocabulary. Various theoretical notions are discussed which are drawn from linguistics (deixis and deictic field), philosophy (reference, language games, and possible worlds), and modern literary theory (fictional worlds and text worlds); some new critical tools are established (,imaginative worlds', visual analogies and 'representational planes', the idea of 'degrees of reference'). Chapter Two sets the scene by looking at specific examples drawn from sympotic imagery shared by pottery and poetry. The rest of the thesis exemplifies the theory set out initially through a series of close readings from a broad selection of Archaic Greek monody. The close readings start with smaller scale fragments which conjure up worlds corresponding to circumscribed situations, and progress to poems which conjure up more extensive worlds. Chapters Three, Four, and Five look at diverse kinds of erotic poetry drawn respectively from Anacreon, Ibycus, and Archilochus. Chapter Six takes as its subject- matter the martial elegy of Callinus, Tyrteus, and Mimnermus. Chapter Seven moves from poetry which conjures up a markedly heroic world to poetry which conjures a contrasting unheroic world: the iambic poetry of Hipponax. Chapter Eight turns to a political poem by Solon. Chapter Nine concludes the thesis in a ring composition by returning to erotic poetry (Sappho's) and to the theoretical considerations set out in Chapter One.
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Agócs, P. A. "Talking song in early Greek poetry." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317722/.
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The thesis is a contribution to the study of early Greek poetics. It surveys general terms for speaking and singing in early Greek poetry from a foothold in performance theory, narratology and the ethnography of speaking, examining the pragmatics of these terms, the values and ideas about poetics, performance, literary tradition and textuality that they imply, and the contribution they make to the self-fashioning of poetic voice. The main focus is the interaction of early fifth-century choral melos’ with older hexameter traditions (Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns), though Attic tragedy and comedy are also taken where necessary into account. The argument, which attempts both to correct old misprisions through a more thorough reading of the primary sources and to provide new interpretations of familiar texts, falls into three main parts. The first is a study of the most important Greek terms for song and singing: hymnos, melos, molpe, oime, and aoide. The second chapter studies the values that attach to song, and aoide and related concepts in particular, examining how the terms and implied values of Homeric and Hesiodic singing are used in the metapoetic discourse of fifth-century praise-poetry to articulate a complex vision of song’s tradition and functions. The third chapter begins with a survey of speech-terms (particularly epos, mythos, and logos) across the corpus of early Greek song, designed to elucidate the background of meanings available to early fifth-century poets. It continues with a close examination of how speech-terms are used, together with words for song, to create the sense of a speaking voice so crucial to melic praise, to mark themes and phases in the lyric argument, to express a sense of the ode as a verbal object with an existence both in and outside performance, and to articulate a wider sense of oral tradition. The conclusions draw the main themes of the argument together in an analysis of types of melic textuality and voice. The material in the chapters is supplemented by appendices which provide both discussion of key passages, and catalogues of important material to which the text alludes, but which it does not discuss in detail.
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Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon. "Aspects of early Greek and Babylonian hymnic poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:70c45666-9768-41ac-bf42-5b5e1926d6d6.
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This thesis is a case study of early Greek poetry in comparison to the literature of the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia, based on a selection of hymns (or: songs in praise of gods) mainly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite and Greek. Chapters 1–3 present the core groups of primary sources from the ancient Near East: Old Babylonian Sumerian, Old Babylonian Akkadian, Hittite. The aim of these chapters is to analyse the main features of style and content of Sumerian and Akkadian hymnic poetry, and to show how certain compositions were translated and adapted beyond Mesopotamia (such as in Hittite). Chapter 4 contains introductory remarks on early Greek hymnic poetry accompanied by some initial comparative observations. On the basis of the primary sources presented in Chapters 1–4, the second half of the thesis investigates selected elements of form and content in a comparative perspective: hymnic openings (Chapter 5), negative predication (Chapter 6), the birth of Aphrodite in the Theogony of Hesiod (Chapter 7), and the origins and development of a phrase in Hittite prayers and the Iliad of Homer (Chapter 8). The conclusion of Chapters 4–6 is that, in terms of form and style, early Greek hymns were probably not indebted to ancient Near Eastern models. This contradicts some current thinking in Classical scholarship, according to which Near Eastern influence was pervasive in early Greek poetry in general. Chapters 7–8 argue that such influence may nevertheless be perceived in certain closely defined instances, particularly where supplementary evidence from other ancient sources is available, and where the extant sources permit a reconstruction of the process of translation and adaptation. Hence this thesis seeks to contribute to the current debate on early Greek and ancient Near Eastern literature with a detailed analysis of a selected group of primary sources.
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Dandoulakis, G. "The struggle for Greek liberation : The contributions of Greek and English poetry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354293.
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Marks, James Richard. "Divine plan and narrative plan in archaic Greek epic /." Digital version:, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026208.
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Holt, Timothy. "Fighting in the shadow of epic : the motivations of soldiers in early Greek lyric poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0e705e39-2ba1-4ac0-9833-f4f6afb04af2.
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This thesis explores the theme of the motivation of soldiers in Greek lyric poetry while holding it up against the backdrop of epic. The motivation of soldiers expressed in lyric poetry depicts a complex system that demanded cohesion across various spheres in life. This system was designed to create and maintain social, communal, and political cohesion as well as cohesion in the ranks. The lyric poems reveal a mutually beneficial relationship between citizen and polis whereby the citizens were willing to fight and potentially die on behalf of the state, and in return they received prominence and rewards within the community. It is no coincidence that these themes were so common in a genre that was popular at the same time as the polis and citizen army were both developing.
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Dimopoulou, Ekaterina. "Human and divine responsibility in archaic Greek poetry." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3477/.
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The purpose of my thesis is to examine the relation between the human and the divine in the Homeric poems, and define thereupon the limits of human and divine responsibility. To this end I particularly focus on the Homeric concepts of fate and divine justice, as these are expressed mainly by the terms and . Nonetheless, since the Greek terms do not always coincide in their semantics with the respective terms of any modern language, it is regarded as necessary that the field of each term be defined prior to the examination of the concepts themselves. Similarly, issues such as morality and Homeric ethics have to be raised, since they form the basis upon which any discussion of Homeric thought can rely. The Iliad and the Odyssey employ the two basic ideas of fate and divine justice each in a discrete manner, and this requires that each poem be examined separately. A comparison between the two works, necessary for a more overall idea of the Homeric world and the Homeric compositions, is incorporated in the chapter on the Odyssey.
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Ladianou, Aikaterini. "Logos Gynaikos: Feminine Voice in Archaic Greek Poetry." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1236711421.
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Caliva, Kathryn M. "Prayer and Pragmatic Speech Acts in Greek Poetry." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1542322753932214.
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Hershkowitz, Debra. "Madness in Greek and Latin epic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296228.
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Park, Arum. "Truth and Genre in Pindar." Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622193.
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By convention epinician poetry claims to be both obligatory and truthful, yet in the intersection of obligation and truth lies a seeming paradox: the poet presents his poetry as commissioned by a patron but also claims to be unbiased enough to convey the truth. In Slater's interpretation Pindar reconciles this paradox by casting his relationship to the patron as one of guest-friendship: when he declares himself a guest-friend of the victor, he agrees to the obligation ‘a) not to be envious of his xenos and b) to speak well of him. The argumentation is: Xenia excludes envy, I am a xenos, therefore I am not envious and consequently praise honestly’. Slater observes that envy may foster bias against the patron, but the problem of pro-patron bias remains: does the poet's friendship with and obligation to his patron produce praise at the expense of truth?
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Meister, Felix Johannes. "Momentary immortality : Greek praise poetry and the rhetoric of the extraordinary." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2a2e9801-b29e-485f-bb1d-2eda190de8e1.
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This thesis takes as its starting point current views on the relationship between man and god in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, according to which mortality and immortality are primarily temporal concepts and, therefore, mutually exclusive. This thesis aims to show that this mutual exclusivity between mortality and immortality is emphasised only in certain poetic genres, while others, namely those centred on extraordinary achievements or exceptional moments in the life of a mortal, can reduce the temporal notion of immortality and emphasise instead the happiness, success, and undisturbed existence that characterise divine life. Here, the paradox of momentary immortality emerges as something attainable to mortals in the poetic representation of certain occasions. The chapters of this thesis pursue such notions of momentary immortality in the wedding ceremony, as presented through wedding songs, in celebrations for athletic victory, as presented through the epinician, and at certain stages of the tragic plot. In the chapter on the wedding song, the discussion focuses on explicit comparisons between the beauty of bride and bridegroom and that of heroes or gods, and between their happiness and divine bliss. The chapter on the epinician analyses the parallelism between the achievement of victory and the exploits of mythical heroes, and argues for a parallelism between the victory celebration and immortalisation. Finally, the chapter on tragedy examines how characters are perceived as godlike because of their beauty, success, or power, and discusses how these perceptions are exploited by the tragedians for certain effects. By examining features of a rhetoric of praise, this thesis is not concerned with the beliefs or expectations of the author, the recipient of praise, or the surrounding milieu. It rather intends to elucidate how moments conceived of as extraordinary are communicated in poetry.
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ZARANTONELLO, MARIANNA. "The Arabic Reception of Pagan Greek Poetry and Poets in the ʿAbbāsid Period." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3459402.
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Il presente studio indaga le dinamiche di ricezione della poesia greca pagana in lingua araba durante l’epoca ʿabbāside, nel contesto del cosiddetto movimento di traduzione e della tradizione filosofico-letteraria che si sviluppò a partire da esso. Questo specifico fenomeno di ricezione è avvenuto sia per via di traduzione passiva di testi greci in siriaco e in arabo sia attraverso un’assimilazione più libera di frammenti testuali e motivi narrativi, ma ha avuto, in generale, una portata piuttosto limitata. La poesia greca sembra essere stata ai margini degli interessi degli intellettuali arabofoni di epoca ʿabbāside e, infatti, non si conservano né sono attestate traduzioni integrali di opere di poesia greca (ad eccezione di alcuni poemi di argomento scientifico o moralistico-filosofico). Dunque, la trasmissione di questa parte della letteratura greca è avvenuta per lo più per via indiretta, attraverso frammenti sparsi provenienti da fonti eterogenee. Queste possono essere ricondotte a due macrocategorie che corrispondono a due canali di trasmissione principali. La prima macrocategoria è costituita dai riferimenti poetici contenuti in trattati filosofici, medici e scientifici tradotti in arabo. Data la vastità di questo campo di indagine ci siamo concentrati sull’esame delle versioni arabe del Corpus Aristotelicum. Il secondo canale di trasmissione è la letteratura dosso-gnomologica, cioè compilazioni di aneddoti e detti che mescolano materiali di diversa origine, non solo greca e arabo-islamica. Oltre a questi corpora di testi, sono state esaminate importanti fonti documentarie che attestino una conoscenza e una trasmissione, almeno parzialmente orale, di elementi narrativi e topoi letterari.This study investigates the dynamics of reception of pagan Greek poetry in Arabic during the ʿAbbāsid era, in the context of the so-called translation movement and the philosophical-literary tradition that developed from it. This specific phenomenon of reception took place either through passive translation of Greek texts into Syriac and Arabic or through a freer assimilation of textual fragments and narrative motifs, but it had, in general, a rather limited scope. Greek poetry seems to have been at the margins of the interests of Arabic-speaking intellectuals of the ʿAbbāsid period, and, in fact, no full translations of works of Greek poetry are preserved or attested (with the exception of a few poems on scientific or moralistic-philosophical subjects). Thus, the transmission of this part of Greek literature took place mostly indirectly, through scattered fragments from heterogeneous sources. These can be reduced to two macrocategories corresponding to two main channels of transmission. The first macrocategory consists of poetic references contained in philosophical, medical and scientific treatises translated into Arabic. Given the vastness of this field of investigation, we have concentrated on examining the Arabic versions of the Corpus Aristotelicum. The second channel of transmission is the doxo-gnomological literature, i.e., compilations of anecdotes and sayings mixing materials of different origins, not only Greek and Arabic-Islamic. In addition to these corpora of texts, important documentary sources attesting to an at least partially oral knowledge and transmission of narrative elements and literary topoi were examined.
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Dyck, Karen Rhoads Van. "The poetics of censorship in Greek poetry since 1967." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305898.
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Ricks, David Bruce. "Homer and Greek poetry 1888 - 1940 : Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268791.
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Romney, Jessica M. "Group identity, discourse, and rhetoric in early Greek poetry." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687266.
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This dissertation asks how individual Greek poets of the seventh and sixth centuries interact with and manipulate the group identities shared with their audiences. By employing a framework derived from Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, I a~alyze these poems both as instances of discourse (,language in use') and as pieces of 'literature'. I ground my analysis in the socio-political context for the Archaic period, during which time intra-elite conflict dominated, and in the performance context of the συμπόδιον, the all-male elite drinking party. I begin with Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus, and Solon in a targeted analysis of their poetry. I examine how each body of work interacts with social, political, and martial identities in the context of Archaic Sparta, Mytilene, and Athens respectively. The three poets, though the identities they present to their audience depend on the particular conditions of πόλις and socio-political situation, use a common set of rhetorical strategies to make their concepts of groupness appealing to their audiences. The fourth chapter examines the body of seventh- and sixth-century monodic poetry, where I found that the same set of rhetorical strategies are fairly consistent across the corpus. These rhetorical strategies work underneath the surface of the poetic text to support the identities and behaviour suggested by the more overt devices of allusions to Homeric heroes, insults, narratives, and so forth. The literary and rhetorical methods for encouraging sameness with the poet/speaker thus complement one another as the poetic text delivers a social message along with its cultural or literary one. This thesis demonstrates that sympotic poetry is 'group poetry' that served to negotiate a group's sense of shared sameness, whether in periods of crisis or not. It presents an analysis of how group identities operate within sympotic poetry along with the methodology for doing so.
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Petrella, Bernardo Ballesteros. "Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cfd1affe-f74b-48c5-98db-aba832a7dce8.
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This thesis charts divine assembly scenes in ancient Mesopotamian narrative poetry and the early Greek hexameter corpus, and aims to contribute to a cross-cultural comparison in terms of literary systems. The recurrent scene of the divine gathering is shown to underpin the construction of small- and large-scale compositions in both the Sumero-Akkadian and early Greek traditions. Parts 1 and 2 treat each corpus in turn, reflecting a methodological concern to assess the comparanda within their own context first. Part 1 (Chapters 1-4) examines Sumerian narrative poems, and the Akkadian narratives Atra-hsīs, Anzû, Enûma eliš, Erra and Išum and the Epic of Gilgameš. Part 2 (Chapters 5-8) considers Homer's Iliad, the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony. The comparative approaches in Part 3 are developed in two chapters (9-10). Chapter 9 offers a detailed comparison of this typical scene's poetic morphology and compositional purpose. Relevant techniques and effects, a function of the aural reception of literature, are shown to overlap to a considerable degree. Although the Greeks are unlikely to have taken over the feature from the Near East, it is suggested that the Greek divine assembly is not to be detached form a Near Eastern context. Because the shared elements are profoundly embedded in the Greek orally-derived poetic tradition, it is possible to envisage a long-term process of oral contact and communication fostered by common structures. Chapter 10 turns to a comparison of the literary pantheon: a focus on the organisation of divine prerogatives and the chief god figures illuminates culture-specific differences which can be related to historical socio-political conditions. Thus, this thesis seeks to enhance our understanding of the representation of the gods in Mesopotamian poetry and early Greek epic, and develops a systemic approach to questions of transmission and cultural appreciation.
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Herd, Colin James. ""Is all Greek, grief to me" : Ancient Greek sophistry and the poetics of Charles Bernstein." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10581.
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This thesis reads the poetry and poetics of Charles Bernstein in relation to his interest in sophistry and sophistics. Taking his 1987 volume The Sophist as a central text, the influence of a sense of sophistics is developed across his wider range of published works. This involves identifying some of the many different interpretations of the sophists throughout the history of philosophy, from the early dismissals by Plato and Aristotle to the more recent reappraisals of their works. A secondary aspect of the thesis is in examining the renewal of interest in the Ancient Greek sophists and suggesting some of the affinities between contemporary literary theory and poetics and the fragments of the works of the major sophists (primarily Protagoras and Gorgias). Finally, I suggest that The Sophist itself is a valuable and contemporaneous re-examination of sophistic ideas, that in fact goes further than those by academics from within philosophy and rhetoric by virtue of employing the stylistic innovations and linguistic experimentation that was so central to the sophistic approach.
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Roberts, T. (Terry). "A study of the similes in late Greek epic poetry." Master's thesis, Faculty of Arts, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11720.
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Fraser, Bruce L. "Word order, focus, and clause linking in Greek tragic poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/219499.
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The thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to the structure of compound and complex sentences. The discussion undertakes a systematic survey of subject, verb, and object order in a corpus of texts, proposes an explanation for the observed order, and develops a model which explains how prominence within the clause is exploited in clause linking to produce the complement structures observed in Homeric and tragic complementation.
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Anderson, Michael J. "Images of the Ilioupersis in Early Greek art and poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239383.
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Georganta, Konstantina. "Modern mimesis : encounters between British and Greek poetry, 1922-1952." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1196/.
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This thesis considers the crisis in the portrayal of national spaces and national identities, insecure in the multiplicity of their cultural roots and thus diasporic and hybrid, from 1922, a year marked for its importance in the disintegration of imperial Britain and in the positioning of Greece on the threshold of its European literary Modernist inheritance, until 1952, the year of Louis MacNeice’s observations of Greece in his poetry collection Ten Burnt Offerings. The boundaries of cultures, states, religious beliefs and genders are considered in the figures of T.S. Eliot’s Mr. Eugenides, C.P. Cavafy’s Myris, Kostes Palamas’s Phemius, W. B. Yeats’s Crazy Jane and Demetrios Capetanakis’s Greek Orlando and the Greek space is explored as John Lehmann’s Mediterranean home and Louis MacNeice’s Easter gathering. The opening chapter considers the bardic performance of Yeats and Palamas’s poetic alter-egos and their respective progress towards a fusion with the feminine and a battle with the modern. Smyrna, an area of contention for British imperial and Greek irredentist claims raising questions about the stability of national states and national identities, is discussed in Chapters 2 and 3 in the way it informed the construction of identities in Eliot’s The Waste Land and Cavafy’s poetry, respectively. Chapters 4 and 5 consider the literary encounter between Capetanakis and Lehmann, a pair that advanced the dissemination of modern Greek poetry in Britain. The final chapter of the thesis examines MacNeice’s poetry and radio features inspired by Greece in an effort to explore how the imagining of Greece has developed both visually and metaphorically in the post-war years.
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Nikolaev, Alexander Sergeevich. "Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10489.
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The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic perspective. This thesis consists of two parts. The first part, “Etymology and Poetics”, is devoted to several cases where scantiness of attestation and lack of semantic information render traditional philological methods of textual interpretation insufficient. In such cases, the meaning of a word has to be arrived at through linguistic analysis and verified through appeal to related poetic traditions, such as that of Indo-Iranian. Chapter 1 proposes a new interpretation for the enigmatic word ἀάατο̋, the Homeric epithet of the waters of the Styx, which is shown to have meant ‘sunless’. Chapter 2 deals with the word ἀριδείκετο̋, argued to mean ‘famous’: this solution finds support in the use of the root *dei̯k- in the poetic expression “to show forth praise”, found in Greek choral lyric and the Rigveda. Chapter 3 investigates the history of the verbs ἰάπτω ‘to harm’ and ἰάπτω ‘to send forth (to Hades)’. Chapter 4 improves the text of Pindar (O. 6.54), restoring a form ἀπειράτωι. Chapter 5 discusses the difficult word ἀμαυρό̋, establishing for it a meaning ‘weak’ and proposing a new etymology. Finally, Chapter 6 places Alc. 34 in the context of comparative mythology, with the object of reconstructing the history of the Lesbian lyric tradition. The second part, “Grammar of Poetry”, shifts the focus of the inquiry from comparative poetics to the language of early Greek poetry and its use. Chapter 7 addresses the problematic Homeric aorist infinitives in -έειν, showing how these artificial forms were created by allomorphic remodeling driven by metrical necessity; the problem is placed in the wider context of the debate about the transmission and development of Homeric epic diction. The metrical and linguistic facts relating to the distribution of infinitives are further discussed in Chapter 8, where it is argued that the unexpected Aeolic form νηφέμεν in Archil. 4 should be viewed as an intentional allusion to the epic tradition, specifically, the famous midsummer picnic scene in Hesiod.Linguistics
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Yasumura, Noriko. "Challenges to the power of Zeus in early Greek poetry." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422694.
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Knight, Virginia Helen. "Prosthen eti kleiousin aoidoi : responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358355.
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Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios. "Selected fragments of Sappho : introductory studies and commentary." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274820.
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Macleod, Eilidh. "Linguistic evidence for Mycenaean epic." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14497.
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It is now widely acknowledged that the Greek epic tradition, best known from Homer, dates back into the Mycenaean Age, and that certain aspects of epic language point to an origin for this type of verse before the date of the extant Linear B tablets. This thesis argues that not only is this so, but that indeed before the end of the Mycenaean Age epic verse was composed in a distinctive literary language characterized by the presence of alternative forms used for metrical convenience. Such alternatives included dialectal variants and forms which were retained in epic once obsolete in everyday speech. Thus epic language in the 2nd millennium already possessed some of the most distinctive characteristics manifest in its Homeric incarnation, namely the presence of doublets and the retention of archaisms. It is argued here that the most probable source for accretions to epic language was at all times the spoken language familiar to the poets of the tradition. There is reason to believe that certain archaic forms, attested only in epic and its imitators, were obsolete in spoken Greek before 1200 B.C.; by examining formulae containing such forms it is possible to determine the likely subject-matter of 2nd millennium epic. Such a linguistic analysis leads to the conclusion that much of the thematic content of Homeric epic corresponds to that of 2nd millennium epic. Non-Homeric early dactylic verse (e.g. the Hesiodic corpus) provides examples of both non-Homeric dialect forms and of archaisms unknown from Homer. This fact, it is argued, points to the conclusion that the 2nd millennium linguistic heritage of epic is evident also from these poems, and that they are not simply imitations of Homer, but independent representatives of the same poetic tradition whose roots lie in the 2nd millennium epic.
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Reidmiller, Anne Rekers. "Horace and the Greek Lyric Tradition." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1115397326.
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Robertson, George Ian Cantlie. "Evaluative language in Greek lyric and elegiac poetry and inscribed epigram to the end of the fifth century B.C.E." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3a03f8c6-5e38-4066-b313-5df6b5eedd19.
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This dissertation is a study of the rhetorical uses of evaluative language in Greek lyric and elegiac poetry and inscribed epigram of the period from the seventh to the fifth century B.C.E. The discussion focuses on the poets' evaluations of human worth in three areas, each of which forms a separate chapter: martial valour, the relationship between physical appearance and inner virtue, and political or social values. Within each chapter, particular aspects of the subject under discussion are treated under separate headings. Although the literary material has been treated in various ways in the past, the inclusion of inscribed epigram alongside the other literature in this case offers evidence from a related but distinct branch of poetic tradition for the development and expression of these values; divergences between the literary and the inscriptional tradition can be quite marked, as can the different approaches taken by poets of various genres within the literary material. The attempts of previous scholarship to define clear and consistent systems or codes of value represented in the poetry and to trace their development over this period have been generally unconvincing, but the poets' deployment of evaluative language does show some discernible patterns which appear to be related more to genre and poetic tradition than to the purely chronological processes of development that have been proposed by other scholars.
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Irwin, E. "Epic situation and the politics of exhortation : political uses of poetic tradition in archaic Greek poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604960.
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The thesis begins by exploring a central problem: while the genre of elegiac exhortation poetry both invites and itself exploits analogies between, on the one hand, the immediate audience and performance setting of the poem and, on the other, the broader civic identities of that audience and larger civic context to which they belong. And yet, the circumscribed social setting for which it was produced, the private aristocratic symposion, complicates the interpretation of seemingly all-embracing political terms such as city, fatherland, country. The thesis challenges the prevailing orthodoxy with the questions, who constitute the city, what expressions of attachment to it mean, and how such expressions function within their poetic and larger social context. By asking what it means for symposiasts to recite in the first person exhortations evocative of those spoken by the heroes of epic, the thesis reveals the elitist claims and pretensions implicit in this heroic role-playing, pretensions which are themselves deeply political. The thesis culminates in an examination of the explicitly political poetry and career of Solon, providing a much-needed study of this figure whose dual career as poet and lawgiver epitomises the stakes involved in the appropriation of poetic traditions in this period. A close reading of Solon 4 demonstrates how the poem carefully situates itself in an adversarial relationship to the martial poetic traditions of epic and elegiac exhortation, while positively embracing the themes of Hesiod and Odyssean epic. The indications of a political stance inherent in these poetic 'situations' provides the basis for a more wide-ranging discussion of the relationship of Solon's poetry to his political career. It concludes by re-evaluating the relationship of Solon to tyranny, and, finally, by offering an interpretation of the importance of Homeric poetry in the political agenda of the Athenian tyrants who followed him.
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Papastamati, S. "Gamos in archaic and classical Greek poetry : theme, ritual and metaphor." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1389425/.
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This thesis considers how advances in optical network and optoelectronic technologies may be utilised in particle physics applications. The research is carried out within a certain framework; CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) upgrade. The focus is on the upgrade of the ”last-tier” data links, those residing between the last information-processing stage and the accelerator. For that purpose, different network architectures, based on the Pas¬sive Optical Network (PON) architectural paradigm, are designed and evaluated. Firstly, a Time-Division Multiplexed (TDM) PON targeting timing, trigger and control applica¬tions is designed. The bi-directional, point-to-multipoint nature of the architecture leads to infrastructure efficiency increase. A custom protocol is developed and implemented us¬ing FPGAs. It is experimentally verified that the network design can deliver significantly higher data rate than the current infrastructure and meet the stringent latency require¬ments of the targeted application. Consequently, the design of a network that can be utilised to transmit all types of information at the upgraded LHC, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is discussed. The most challenging requirement is that of the high up¬stream data rate. As WDM offers virtual point-to-point connectivity, the possibility of using a Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) PON is theoretically investigated. The shortcomings of this solution are identified; these include high cost and complexity, therefore a simpler architecture is designed. This is also based on the PON paradigm and features the use of Reflective Electroabsorption Modulators (REAM) at the front-end (close to the particle collision point). Its performance is experimentally investigated and shown to meet the requirements of a unified architecture at the HL-LHC from a networking perspective. Finally, since the radiation resistance of optoelectronic components used at the front-end is of major importance, the REAM radiation hardness is experimentally investigated. Their radiation resistance limits are established, while new insights into the radiation damage mechanism are gained.
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Jolowicz, Daniel Arnold. "Latin poetry and the idea of Rome in the Greek novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00441253-6764-476f-a599-311f28396e94.
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My doctoral project focuses on texts known as the 'ancient Greek novels'. I am interested in how the novels - and imperial Greek literature more generally - interact with Latin literature and Roman power. The major claim of the thesis is that the Greek novelists Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, and Longus (writing under the Roman Empire in the first three centuries CE) are engaging meaningfully with literature written in Latin, especially Augustan poetry of the first century BCE. The claim has never been systematically explored, and runs counter to received wisdom. The thesis demonstrates that the novelists are invested in Latin literature (especially Vergil and the elegists) and Roman cultural narratives, and potentially lays the groundwork for a major overhaul and re-evaluation of the way we read imperial Greek literature. It draws two major conclusions: (i) that the Greek novels are deeply invested in Latin literature and Roman cultural narratives at the level of poetics, and (ii) that this literary engagement is part of a more subterranean political agenda through which the texts articulate a resistance to Rome and empire. Chapter 1 explores the novelists' literary and ideological appropriation of the elegiac metaphors of seruitium and militia amoris. Chapter 2 analyses Chariton's engagement with the Aeneid. Chapter 3 pursues Chariton's relationship with Ovid's epistolary and exilic poetry, as well as with Latin elegy more generally. Chapter 4 examines Achilles' use of Latin elegy as part of his redefinition of the novelistic genre. Chapter 5 explores how Achilles mediates his version of Roman foundation narratives such as Romulus' Asylum, and the rapes of the Sabine women, Lucretia, and Verginia. Chapter 6 examines the gamut of Longus' responses to Latin literature and Roman culture, including Vergil, Ovid, the Lupercalia, and Romulus and Remus. The Appendices tabulate undiscussed allusions.
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Callaway, Cathy L. "The oath in epic poetry /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11449.
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DiLorenzo, Kate. ""To share in the roses of Pieria" relationships to the Muses' gift in the epic poets and Sappho /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1475.
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Mason, Henry Charles. "The Hesiodic Aspis : introduction and commentary on vv. 139-237." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:05a4c022-03d0-4508-800c-9e68e8429999.
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This thesis is concerned with the pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis, also known as the Scutum or Shield of Herakles (Heracles). It is divided into two halves: the Introduction, consisting of four chapters, is followed by detailed line-by-line commentary on a portion of the Greek text. Chapter I surveys the evidence for the poem's origins and dating before moving on to its scholarly reception since Wolf. It then argues that, for a proper understanding of the Aspis, the methodologies of oral poetics must be balanced with an awareness of its responses to fixed texts (in particular the Iliad). Chapter II examines the author as a poet within the oral tradition, focussing on: narrative style and structuring; type-scenes; similes; poetic ethos; the poem's position relative to the Hesiodic corpus; the use of formular language; and the growth of the poem in the author's hands. These problems are most fruitfully approached by taking account of the interplay of tradition on the one hand and of allusion to specific texts on the other. Wider points about the advanced stages of the oral tradition also emerge; in particular, from an analysis of narrative inconsistencies in the Aspis it is suggested that writing played a role in the poem's composition. Chapter III positions the poet within the literary tradition: his interactions with other songs and tales are sometimes sophisticated engagements of a kind more often detected in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The presentation of the protagonist of the Aspis evinces the poet's skilful handling of myth, here manipulated for political purposes. Chapter III concludes with a survey of the poem's reception in early art and in literature up to Byzantine times. In Chapter IV the central section of the poem, the description of Herakles' shield (vv. 139-320), is examined in detail, both in relation to the Homeric Shield of Achilles and within the context of the Aspis. The second half of the thesis comprises a critical edition of and lemmatic commentary on vv. 139-237.
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Phillips, Tom. "Pindar's library : performance poetry and material texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fb9b6bcc-0a2e-486e-94c4-f74a30d8cae8.
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Pantopoulos, Iraklis. "The stylistic identity of the metapoet : a corpus-based comparative analysis using translations of modern Greek poetry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3456.
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The aim of this study is to explore the stylistic identity of four translators of modern Greek poetry into English and to outline each translator’s distinct stylistic profile. In line with views on the subject expressed by Malmkjær (1996) and Baker (2000) a translator’s profile is seen as being composed by consistent patterns that can be identified throughout their work and which leave their personal mark on the text. A corpus-based methodology is used for the identification and exploration of these patterns, through a Specialized Corpus of English Translations of Modern Greek Poetry (SCETOMGP). This corpus contains translations by Rae Dalven, Kimon Friar, Edmund Keeley & Phillip Sherrard (working in collaboration) and David Connolly. The source-texts are taken from C.P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Yiannis Ritsos and Odysseus Elytis, who were extensively translated during the second half of the 20th century. The main purpose of the corpus is to facilitate direct comparison between the retranslations of the same poem. Such direct comparisons form the core of this study and have the advantage of making the issue of source-text influence on each translator directly observable, alongside their other stylistic traits. A detailed account of the theoretical views or reflections each translator has put forth is also presented. Following Holmes (1994) the translator of poetry is seen here as a meta-poet who requires skills similar to those of a critic and an original poet, and certain skills that are specific only to the translator. Consequently, the translators’ views on issues of language, literature, style and translation not only provide the backdrop for exploring any stylistic patterns found in the texts, but are seen as part of their stylistic profile. The distinguishing stylistic features for each translator are explored in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Overall word frequencies for each translator are examined, the stylistic features that are prominent in each case are identified, and their impact is considered. Special attention is also paid to the way those stylistic features that Boase-Beier (2005) calls ‘universal aspects of literature’ are treated by each translator. The next stage of the study involves the identification and sorting out of the patterns of stylistic features that consistently manifest in a translator’s work and examining how these patterns relate to their theoretical views and reflections. In the final stage, the stylistic profile of each translator is compiled by complementing the textual and contextual data together with each translator’s use of paratexts and extra-textual material.
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Fearn, David. "Bacchylides : politics and poetic tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273160.
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Clare, Raymond John. "Aspects of space and movement in the Odyssey of Homer and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261502.
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Campbell, Charles. "Poets and Poetics in Greek Literary Epigram." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384333736.
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Willi, Andreas. "The language of Aristophanes : aspects of linguistic variation in classical Attic Greek." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365461.
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Carraway, Jill Game. "Olga Broumas Greek in an American voice /." Electronic thesis, 2007. http://dspace.zsr.wfu.edu/jspui/handle/10339/210.
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Brown, Adam. "A study of gold in early Greek poetry : from Homer to Bacchylides." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260109.
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Kakkoufa, Nikolas. "‘Αθήνα – η πιο ξένη πρωτεύουσα’ : urban estrangement in Greek poetry, 1912-2012." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/------urban-estrangement-in-greek-poetry-19122012(3f6c34dd-0bf0-4277-bd8c-60f51d40a5aa).html.
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This dissertation examines the use of language by major Greek poets of the twentieth century as a means to express their feelings of estrangement towards the Athenian urban environment. In doing so it takes into consideration the history of how the rapid creation of the modern Athens has been reflected in literary representations, beginning with Palamas’ Satirical Exercises (1912). Each chapter begins by setting out the methodological framework of a specific textual device in relation to which representative relevant poems are examined. The introductory chapter focuses on Athens, as a Metropolis, and the changes the city had to go through in order to become an urban capital – highlighting the differences between literary representations in prose and poetry. It also offers a typology of estrangement, taking into consideration various types of estrangement that the city can be felt to provoke. It also asks how a mapping of the city connects to national identity as seen by poets who in most cases are not natives of Athens but newcomers to the city. Chapter I investigates a range of poems with reference to onomastics and as well as social anthropological theories regarding the connection of space and time. Chapter III employs code switching and the theory of liminality to show how poets express their estrangement towards linguistic tropes, that are representative of social mobility and life in the urban context. Chapter IV, finally, investigates the gap between written and oral discourse, especially the poets’ debts to the tradition of the folk songs of ξενιτιά and their effort to include their work in a form of Greek oral tradition. This PhD thesis rehabilitates Palamas as an influential figure for Greek poets’ engagement with modernity and proves continuity in the employment of such textual devices as ways to express urban estrangement, from the beginning of the twentieth century till its end.
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Livingston, James Graham. "Imagery of psychological motivation in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica and early Greek poetry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25894.
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This thesis adopts a cognitive-phenomenological approach to Apollonius’ presentation of psychological imagery, thus eschewing the cultural-determinist assumptions that have tended to dominate Classical scholarship. To achieve this, I analyse relevant theories and results from the cognitive sciences (Theory of Mind, agency, gesture, conceptual metaphor), as well as perceived socio-literary influences from the post-Homeric tradition and the various advances (for example, medical) from contemporary Alexandria. This interdisciplinary methodology is then applied to the Argonautica in three large case studies: Medea and the simile of the sunbeam (3.755-60), Heracles and the simile of the gadfly (1.1286-72), and, finally, the poem’s overall psychological portrayal of Jason. In so doing, I show that Apollonius conforms to cognitive universal patterns of psychological expression, while also deploying and deepening his specific culture’s poetic, folk, and scientific models.
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Miguélez, Cavero Laura. "Poems in context Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200 - 600 AD." Berlin New York, NY de Gruyter, 2006. http://d-nb.info/990069737/04.
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Miguélez, Cavero Laura. "Poems in context : Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD /." Berlin : de Gruyter, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3147904&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Daskalopoulos, Anastasios A. "Homer, the manuscripts, and comparative oral traditions /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9953854.
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