.Footnote19Not a mere romantic interest in the ‘generally Greek’ then, but rather a fairly unorthodox concern with the ‘generally human’ in all its political, social and psychological implications grounded his approach to the history of literature, as much as his suspicious reception of every ...
but its main focus lies with collecting and recounting mythic episodes, both by the museum guides (who act as the Greek gods) and its informational plaques, which present the Greek myths. Importantly, the collection and recounting of myths is the precise topic of a literary genre known in bot...
after he had been seriously ill and realised that he was dying. It is Schubert’s testament to death. The quartet takes its name from the lied ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’, a setting of a poem of the same name by Matthias Claudius which Schubert wrote in 1817. ...
Its chronological ambit extends back roughly twenty years, but remains flexible enough to consider much earlier translations when current ones fall well below their quality. The presentation, however, avoids a strict diachronic approach in preference for a grouping by genre. GREEK LITERATURE 1. Homer...
Origins and Birth Cupid Carving His Bow(1620s) by François Duquesnoy, Bode Museum, Berlin. /Wikimedia Commons The Romans reinterpreted myths and concepts pertaining to the Greek Eros for Cupid in their own literature and art, and medieval and Renaissance mythographers conflate the two freely....
Regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers and a legend in his native land, Manos Hadjidakis is also one of the best-known internationally thanks to a body of works that touches many musical genres, from concert music to popular songs and scores for the stage and screen. Hadjidakis and...
He has amassed a mountain of evidence in favor of the Baltic origins of both Greek epics. Similarities between the mythologies of the North and the Mediterranean have often been pointed out. Vinci argues that a deterioration in climate around 2000 B.C. caused some of the Scandinavian peoples ...
20–21). Latin preceded Greek and Hebrew, and, in his youthful poem to his father, Ad Patrem, he calls Latin and the eloquence it realizes “Romulean” (Milton 2008, p. 79), that is, the language of the founder of the city of Rome. Classical Latin, and the Roman culture it ...
The first people to effectively weaponize Carlin’s chain of thought were the Byzantine Greeks, who created a composition known to history as Greek fire. The composition of Greek fire was such a closely guarded secret that its exact formula remains unknown, but its effectiveness in combat likely...
From the 16th century on, many words that had been excluded from Japanese poetry because of their foreign origins or their humble meanings, following the dictates of the “codes” ofpoetic dictionestablished in the 10th century, were adopted by the practitioners of thehaiku, originally an iconocla...