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This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly... more
Though Odysseus’ tales to Eumaios and Aninoos in Odyssey 14.199–359 and 17.417–44, respectively, are presented as fictional tales within Homer’s larger myth, some elements have striking analogs in Late Bronze–Early Iron Age reality.... more
CU Boulder - FREN1200 Offered FA2014, FA2015, FA2016 Course Description: The popularity of George RR Martin's fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire and its Emmy-winning HBO adaptation Game of Thrones shows us that major themes from medieval... more
This article reads the problem of trespass within William Shakespeare's King Lear. I draw upon eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone's notion of trespass, sixteenth-century jurist Jean Bodin's notion of sovereignty, in order to... more
RESUMEN La obediencia del héroe en el Cantar de mio Cid es una decisión táctica, no estratégica, a partir de la cual se desarrolla un proceso de persuasión de la voluntad regia que contrarrestará el efectuado por los malos mestureros... more
Dating texts is one of the most important challenges for research into literary history. Only through a chronological ranking of texts, one can gain insight into the development of literature through time. Dating Middle Dutch chivalric... more
The Ifugaos seem to be the only people in the world who have developed peacemaking ideology in a typically aggressive genre of oral literature. The rich literature on epic traditions worldwide portrays a highly male-centered genre of song... more
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Captain Ahab is no exception. Forget for a second Ahab's villainous qualities and look instead to the classical tradition. Shakespeare's Macbeth was not a very nice guy. Neither was Milton's Satan.... more
Studies in epic cinema have flourished in the past decade, but one senses that scholars take the term to be self-explanatory, without considering its literary origins and the variety of films that can be placed under the rubric of the... more
Aided Óenfir Aífe (AOA), “The Death of Aife’s Only Son”, is one of the shortest stories of the Ulster’s Cycle which shares the same origins with the Táin, back to the IX century, for language features and themes (Findon 1994, 139; Varese... more
This volume mostly consists of the Song of the Flute (veṇu-gītam) and Krishna's pastime of lifting Govardhana Hill. The translation of the excellent commentaries of exalted scholars from the 4 Vaishnava sampradayas is included.
COURSE DESCRIPTION South India, with its rich history and stunning landscapes, has provided the setting for some of the greatest epics in the ancient world. In this class we will explore two of the ‘Five Great Jewels’ of Tamil literature:... more
Questo volume è dedicato al secondo libro dell'Iliade, e riunisce insieme tre elementi: il testo dell’Iliade, una traduzione interlineare rigorosamente letterale ed un commentario. Non sono a conoscenza di un altro testo in cui tutti... more
The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest literary explorations of the purpose and meaning of human life. The poem’s hero embarks on a quest for immortality, only to discover that, for humankind, eternal life lies in... more
The Āpaddharmaparvan, 'the book on conduct in times of distress', is an important section of the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata which, despite its significance for Mahābhārata studies and for the history of Indian social and... more
Reseñado por Ines de Ornellas e Castro, en Evphrosyne, N° 45, 2017, pp. 649-651 (Portugal). Reseñado por Jean-Louis Charlet, en Athenaeum, N° 103/1, 2015, pp. 286-288 (Italia). Reseñado por Luis Alberto Cuenca Prado, Emérita, N° 82/1,... more
This volume mostly relates the episode of Brahma's abducting Krishna's friends and calves and Brahma's speech. Chapter 14 and the commentaries of various exalted scholars of the Vaishnava sampradayas treat of philosophy in depth and... more
The Rāsa Dance. Are the Sanskrit commentaries sometimes better than the text?! The commentaries of Vallabhācārya, Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, and many other eminent stalwarts of the 4 Vaishnava Sampradayas are translated here.
Esperimento di traduzione dell'Iliade di Omero. Libro XIII: 'La battaglia alle navi'. Traduzione interlineare con vocabolario essenziale in linea. La traduzione è accompagnata da commenti e note grammaticali. Il testo dell'Iliade è quello... more
Indice / Content: 1. La teoría en los prólogos. 2. Con toda verdad: testigos, documentos, archivos. 3. Cumplir con la poesía. 4. Entender la guerra: épica y artes de la milicia. 5. A leer una épica no se acomoda el vulgo. 6. Faltando... more
"The Book of Karna" relates the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna - great hero and the eldest Pandava - leads the Kaurava army into combat. This first... more
This article approaches Mathew Arnold’s epic poem Sohrab and Rustum as an example of a highly visualised form of narrative, and places it within a historical and cultural context in the nineteenth century in order to illustrate how it... more
The mistakes we make about ourselves result in our deepest sufferings. Philosophy, meant to be a remedy for our souls’ affliction, claims to offer both a diagnosis and a cure. I look to ancient India, where Buddhists and Hindus alike... more
The book features the translation of the commentaries of many exalted scholars from the 4 Vaishnava sampradayas. Each verse of the Bhagavatam text is followed by the prose order and a perfect translation.
This volume relates Krishna's baby pastimes and boyhood pastimes. As in Volume 1 of this series, this book features the translation of the commentaries of exalted scholars from the 4 Vaishnava sampradayas. Each verse of the Bhagavatam... more
Alex Woloch, in a pioneering 2003 study on literary characters and characterization, observed that narrative meaning emerges in the dynamic attention to and neglect of the characters, major and minor, who inhabit the same story but occupy... more
Lo studio dei poemi omerici obbliga i critici ad occuparsi di un arco cronologico molto esteso, corrispondente a circa dieci secoli, quelli che intercorrono tra il XVI ed il VI secolo a.C. Perché? Prima di tutto occorre considerare che il... more
Pubblico ora la traduzione integrale, con commento, del sesto libro dell'Iliade, il libro che contiene la splendida scena in cui Ettore, per un momento al sicuro, all'interno delle mura di Troia, incontra la moglie Andromaca ed il figlio... more
“The Text of the Doha Ramayana.” In The Ramayana of Hamida Banu Begum Queen Mother of Mughal India, co-authored by Marika Sardar, John Seyller, and Audrey Truschke, 24-31, Cinisello Balsamo (Italy): Silvana Editoriale, 2020.
The heroic deeds of the Banī Hilāl tribe of Bedouin Arabs, as they migrate during the tenth and eleventh centuries from the Arabian Peninsula across the Levant, Egypt, and into North Africa, are preserved throughout the Arabic- and... more
Il Libro XI dell'Iliade è il primo di un blocco di libri che narrano del giorno più lungo e più importante dell'Iliade: un giorno che si apre con l'aristia di Agamennone nel Libro XI e si chiude con il recupero del corpo di Patroclo nel... more
Il Libro IV dell'Iliade è il libro che - dopo un serie di ritardi e diversivi - vede finalmente l'inizio dei combattimenti. L'occasione viene offerta dal ferimento di Menelao, colpito da una freccia dell'arciere Pandaro, a sua volta... more
Prof Dr. İlhan Başgöz who is found appropriate for “Reward of Superior Care to Turkish Culture” by Culture Ministry of Turkey Republic, borns in 1921 or 1293 in Gemerek/Sivas. He graduates from Ankara University Language and... more
Understanding that Homeric epic is the product of a long-standing oral tradition facilitates its use as a source for early Greek history. Oral tradition constantly evolves as poets interact with their audiences, retaining only such... more