The Benioff-Petersen 2004 movie Troy is the latest in a series of films that feature the world fa... more The Benioff-Petersen 2004 movie Troy is the latest in a series of films that feature the world famous lovers Helen and Paris. The film acknowledges its debt to Homer's Iliad but, like ancient works before, freely adapts source material to its own vision and aims. This paper compares Benioff-Petersen's treatment of Helen with that of the Iliad emphasizing the difference
This is not, as its format (31 × 23 cm) and generous illustration might suggest, a co¶ee-table bo... more This is not, as its format (31 × 23 cm) and generous illustration might suggest, a co¶ee-table book. The author’s starting point is Mycenaean domestic architecture, her interest in which has been demonstrated by her earlier publication, The Panagia Houses at Mycenae (Philadelphia, 1987). Stimulated by her perception of a close correspondence between the houses which she has excavated and Homeric descriptions of architecture, she here launches a determined counter-assault on current scepticism regarding re·ections of the Bronze Age in the two epics. Her discussion is not restricted to painstaking comparison of the material remains of Mycenaean culture insofar as they might be relevant to Homer: she enthusiastically addresses most aspects of the Homeric question and a wide range of notorious minor problems, and is often bold in speculation. A convinced unitarian, she believes in an eighth-century Homer whose work was transmitted orally until a namesake from among the Homeridae dictated the epics at Athens under Pisistratus; this sixth-century homonym was, she suggests, responsible for the introduction of the extended similes, an innovation resulting from the in·uence of lyric poetry. This reconstruction of a crucial stage in the epic’s history will strike many Homerists as more ingenious than persuasive. There is some carelessness over Greek vocabulary. Thus με λατπιΚ is treated as a noun (‘The με λατπιΚ carried by Deiphobus’, p. 40), λοσ ξθ as an adjective (p. 80); ε ξαιευ0οξυοξ and τλι εξυοξ (p. 3), νεη0μοξ (p. 30), ηεν ξοι (p. 215 n.102), and λσ δενοξ (p. 70, repeatedly) cannot easily be dismissed as misprints.
Acta Classica : Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa, 1983
The epithet 'pistos' conveys reliability, but this meaning is rare in the Iliad and goes ... more The epithet 'pistos' conveys reliability, but this meaning is rare in the Iliad and goes beyond comradeship. It is used only once in the Odyssey. Pistos means loyal and is used for heroes who have died in battle.
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a col... more In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in modern popular media, and focusing on a comparison between ancient and modern sets of values.
Page 1. Mnemosyne, Vol. XLI, Fase. 1-2 (1988) DRY TEARLESS EYES BY H ANNA M. ROISMAN Page and Hut... more Page 1. Mnemosyne, Vol. XLI, Fase. 1-2 (1988) DRY TEARLESS EYES BY H ANNA M. ROISMAN Page and Hutchinson read the difficult lines 695-697 in Aeschylus' Septem as follows: ?t. f???? ?a? ????a ??? pat??? ?te?eG? ??a ????? a?t??? d??as?? ...
Page 1. 72 WOMEN IN SENECAN TRAGEDY Hanna M. Roisman Department of Classics, Colby College Waterv... more Page 1. 72 WOMEN IN SENECAN TRAGEDY Hanna M. Roisman Department of Classics, Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901, USA Abstract. A comparison of Seneca's and Euripides' characterization of Phaedra and Medea ...
Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...
The Benioff-Petersen 2004 movie Troy is the latest in a series of films that feature the world fa... more The Benioff-Petersen 2004 movie Troy is the latest in a series of films that feature the world famous lovers Helen and Paris. The film acknowledges its debt to Homer's Iliad but, like ancient works before, freely adapts source material to its own vision and aims. This paper compares Benioff-Petersen's treatment of Helen with that of the Iliad emphasizing the difference
This is not, as its format (31 × 23 cm) and generous illustration might suggest, a co¶ee-table bo... more This is not, as its format (31 × 23 cm) and generous illustration might suggest, a co¶ee-table book. The author’s starting point is Mycenaean domestic architecture, her interest in which has been demonstrated by her earlier publication, The Panagia Houses at Mycenae (Philadelphia, 1987). Stimulated by her perception of a close correspondence between the houses which she has excavated and Homeric descriptions of architecture, she here launches a determined counter-assault on current scepticism regarding re·ections of the Bronze Age in the two epics. Her discussion is not restricted to painstaking comparison of the material remains of Mycenaean culture insofar as they might be relevant to Homer: she enthusiastically addresses most aspects of the Homeric question and a wide range of notorious minor problems, and is often bold in speculation. A convinced unitarian, she believes in an eighth-century Homer whose work was transmitted orally until a namesake from among the Homeridae dictated the epics at Athens under Pisistratus; this sixth-century homonym was, she suggests, responsible for the introduction of the extended similes, an innovation resulting from the in·uence of lyric poetry. This reconstruction of a crucial stage in the epic’s history will strike many Homerists as more ingenious than persuasive. There is some carelessness over Greek vocabulary. Thus με λατπιΚ is treated as a noun (‘The με λατπιΚ carried by Deiphobus’, p. 40), λοσ ξθ as an adjective (p. 80); ε ξαιευ0οξυοξ and τλι εξυοξ (p. 3), νεη0μοξ (p. 30), ηεν ξοι (p. 215 n.102), and λσ δενοξ (p. 70, repeatedly) cannot easily be dismissed as misprints.
Acta Classica : Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa, 1983
The epithet 'pistos' conveys reliability, but this meaning is rare in the Iliad and goes ... more The epithet 'pistos' conveys reliability, but this meaning is rare in the Iliad and goes beyond comradeship. It is used only once in the Odyssey. Pistos means loyal and is used for heroes who have died in battle.
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a col... more In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in modern popular media, and focusing on a comparison between ancient and modern sets of values.
Page 1. Mnemosyne, Vol. XLI, Fase. 1-2 (1988) DRY TEARLESS EYES BY H ANNA M. ROISMAN Page and Hut... more Page 1. Mnemosyne, Vol. XLI, Fase. 1-2 (1988) DRY TEARLESS EYES BY H ANNA M. ROISMAN Page and Hutchinson read the difficult lines 695-697 in Aeschylus' Septem as follows: ?t. f???? ?a? ????a ??? pat??? ?te?eG? ??a ????? a?t??? d??as?? ...
Page 1. 72 WOMEN IN SENECAN TRAGEDY Hanna M. Roisman Department of Classics, Colby College Waterv... more Page 1. 72 WOMEN IN SENECAN TRAGEDY Hanna M. Roisman Department of Classics, Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901, USA Abstract. A comparison of Seneca's and Euripides' characterization of Phaedra and Medea ...
Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...
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