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Greek: Classical

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Sites about Greek: Classical literature:

Classical and Medieval Literature Sites
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/Literature/classical.html
A list of annotated links to major sites.
Author: Marlene Manoff
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Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
http://pup.princeton.edu/books/lyons/
“The book first discusses heroines both in relation to heroes and as a separate religious and mythic phenomenon. It examines the cultural meanings of heroines in ritual and representation, their use as examples for mortals, and their typical “biographies.” The model of “ritual antagonism,” in which two mythic figures represented as hostile share a cult, is ultimately modified through an exploration of the mythic correspondences between the god Dionysos and the heroines surrounding him, and through a rethinking of the relationship between Iphigeneia and Artemis. An appendix, which identifies more than five hundred heroines, rounds out this lively work.” Entire text of the book is online and searchable.
Author: Deborah Lyons
From: Princeton University Press: 1996
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Introduction to Greek Tragedy
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/tragedy.htm
A guide to reading and studying Greek tragic drama.
Author: Roger Dunkle
From: The Classical Origins of Western Culture http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/stdygde.htm
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Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/classics/rocco
“Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Adorno, Tragedy and Enlightenment makes a sophisticated argument for the continuing relevance of the classical past, focusing on the subject of democracy. The starting point for Rocco’s analysis is the impasse in contemporary political and cultural theory over the possibility and desirability of democracy in a postmodern world. After explaining the competing positions in the current debate, Rocco argues that ancient Greek tragedy and dialogue–specifically Sophocles’ Oedipus, Plato’s Republic and Gorgias, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia–suggest alternate constructions for this and other postmodern problems. Rocco gives a detailed analysis of the contemporary divide over the theories of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault and provides a provocative reading of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. This original contribution to political and cultural discourse brings us to a new understanding of familiar texts and will alter the grounds of debate for students and scholars of the classical and the contemporary worlds.”
Contains: Historical Context
From: The University of California Press: 1997
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Authors in Greek: Classical literature:

Aeschylus (524 B.C. – 455 B.C.)Rhodius Apollonius (ca 295 BCE – ?)
Solensis Aratus (315 BCE – 245 BCE)Aristophanes (447-6 B.C.E. – 386-80 B.C.E.)
Aristotle (384 B.C.E. – 322 B.C.E.)Euripides (c. 484 B.C.E. – c. 406 B.C.E.)
Gorgias of Leontini ( – )Herodotus (ca 484 BCE – ca 425 BCE)
Homer (approx. 8th century B.C.E. – approx. 8th century B.C.E.)Isocrates (436 BCE – 338 BCE)
Nonnus of Panopolis (ca 5th century AD – ca 5th century AD)Plato (428/427 B.C.E. – 348/347 B.C.E.)
Sappho (ca 630 BCE – ca 570 B.C.E.)Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.E. – 406 B.C.E.)
Thucydides (ca 460 BCE – ca 400 BCE)Xenophon (ca 430 BCE – ca 355 BCE)


Last Updated Mar 25, 2014