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    Epic Diction Richard Janko: Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns. Diachronic development in epic diction. (Cambridge Classical Studies.) Pp. xvi + 322. Cambridge University Press, 1982. £25. [REVIEW]A. M. Bowie - 1985 - The Classical Review 35 (02):240-242.
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    Epic Diction[REVIEW]A. M. Bowie - 1985 - The Classical Review 35 (2):240-242.
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    Apollonius' Epic Diction[REVIEW]A. Kahane - 1993 - The Classical Review 43 (1):19-20.
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    Homeric Modifications of Formulaic Prototypes. Studies in the Development of Greek Epic Diction.Joseph A. Russo & A. Hoekstra - 1967 - American Journal of Philology 88 (3):340.
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    Homer's Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (review).Christos Tsagalis - 2011 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 104 (3):373-374.
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    Hipponax Fragment 128W: Epic Parody or Expulsive Incantation?Christopher A. Faraone - 2004 - Classical Antiquity 23 (2):209-245.
    Scholars have traditionally interpreted Hipponax fragment 128 as an epic parody designed to belittle the grand pretensions and gluttonous habits of his enemy. I suggest, however, that this traditional reading ultimately falls short because of two unexamined assumptions: that the meter and diction of the fragment are exclusively meant to recall epic narrative and not any other early hexametrical genre, and that the descriptive epithets in lines 2 and 3 are the ad hoc comic creations of the (...)
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    Hercvlevs Labor – Labor Limae_: Epic Arithmetic at Virgil, _Aeneid 8.230-2.Gottfried Mader - 2016 - Classical Quarterly 66 (2):800-804.
    A distinctive feature ofAeneid8 is the constant interplay and fluctuation of registers, with high epic and thegenus grandealternating with the lighter strains or learned allusions associated with thegenus tenue. As one commentator has remarked, ‘Man darf das Buch allein schon wegen seines Reichtums an Aitien als das ‘kallimacheischste’ derAeneisbezeichnen.’ Beyond the emphasis on aetiology—the Cacus myth in particular is presented asaitionfor the consecration of the Ara Maxima—the Callimachean complexion comes out also in several smaller not-so-serious or learned touches, typically (...)
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    The Aorist Infinitives in -EEIN in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry.Alexander Nikolaev - 2013 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 133:81-92.
    This paper examines the distribution of thematic infinitive endings in early Greek epic in the context of the long-standing debate about the transmission and development of Homeric epic diction. There are no aorist infinitives in - in Homer which would scan as -before a consonant or caesura (for example *). It is argued that this artificially ending - should be viewed as an actual analogical innovation of the poetic language, resulting from a proportional analogy to the futures. (...)
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    Sappho 110aLP: a Footnote.P. Murgatroyd - 1987 - Classical Quarterly 37 (01):224-.
    Critics comment on the simplicity of the jest here, not without reason.1 But the levity also has some sophistication, of a literary kind. For a start,andare aptly long and are carefully left to the end of their clauses and lines for maximum effect. In addition, these striking words, which appear for the first time in Sappho, may well have been deliberate adaptations of two adjectives which had previously occurred only in Homer,2 and they would in any case have called to (...)
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  10. Dog-Helen and homeric insult.Margaret Graver - 1995 - Classical Antiquity 14 (1):41-61.
    Helen's self-disparagement is an anomaly in epic diction, and this is especially true of those instances where she refers to herself as "dog" and "dog-face." This essay attempts to show that Helen's dog-language, in that it remains in conflict with other features of her characterization, has some generic significance for epic, helping to establish the superiority of epic performance over competing performance types which treated her differently. The metaphoric use of χύων and its derivatives has not (...)
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    Is KΛΕΟΣ ΑΦθΙΤΟΝ a Homeric Formula?Margalit Finkelberg - 1986 - Classical Quarterly 36 (1):1-5.
    Since being brought to light in 1853 by Adalbert Kuhn, the fact that the Homeric expressionκλέος ἄφθιτονhas an exact parallel in the Veda has played an extremely important role in formulating the hypothesis that Greek epic poetry is of Indo-European origin. Yet only with Milman Parry's analysis of the formulaic character of Homeric composition did it become possible to test the antiquity ofκλέος ἄφθιτονon the internal grounds of Homeric diction.It is generally agreed that the conservative character of oral (...)
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    Is κλέος ἄϕθιτον a Homeric Formula?Margalit Finkelberg - 1986 - Classical Quarterly 36 (1):1-5.
    Since being brought to light in 1853 by Adalbert Kuhn, the fact that the Homeric expression κλέος φθιτον has an exact parallel in the Veda has played an extremely important role in formulating the hypothesis that Greek epic poetry is of Indo-European origin. Yet only with Milman Parry's analysis of the formulaic character of Homeric composition did it become possible to test the antiquity of κλέος φθιτον on the internal grounds of Homeric diction. It is generally agreed that (...)
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    The Spirit of Utopia.Anthony Nassar (ed.) - 2000 - Stanford University Press.
    _I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start._ These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch's first major work, _The Spirit of Utopia,_ written mostly in 1915-16, published in its first version just after the First World War, republished five years later, 1923, in the version here presented for the first time in English translation. _The Spirit of Utopia_ is one of the great historic books from the beginning of the century, but it is not an (...)
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    Hellenistic reference in the proem of Theocritus, Idyll 22.Alexander Sens - 1994 - Classical Quarterly 44 (01):66-.
    Theocritus' twenty-second idyll is cast in the form of a hymn to the Dioscuri, who are addressed in the proem as saviours of men, horses, and ships. This opening section of the idyll is modelled loosely on the short thirty-third Homeric hymn, and like that hymn contains an expanded account of the twins' rescue of ships about to be lost in a storm. As is hardly surprising, Theocritus in reworking the Homeric hymn draws on other literary antecedents as well, and (...)
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    Encounters with Ovid: Gavin Douglas's The Palis of Honoure and Derek Walcott's “The Hotel Normandie Pool”.Carole E. Newlands - 2019 - Arion 26 (3):73-114.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Encounters with Ovid: Gavin Douglas’s The Palis of Honoure and Derek Walcott’s “The Hotel Normandie Pool” CAROLE E. NEWLANDS In sixteenth-century Rome, humanist scholars of ancient material and religious culture were exploring the ruins and inscriptions of ancient Rome with a copy of Ovid’s Fasti in hand.1 In London at the same time, Shakespeare was entertaining audiences and inspiring other poets with plots and characters drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (...)
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    The fragments of Furius Antias.W. W. Batstone - 1996 - Classical Quarterly 46 (02):387-.
    Between Ennius and Vergil the Latin epic hexameter underwent dramatic changes in both prosody and diction.1 The precise history of these changes remains obscure, although it is clear from Catullan spondiazontes and Lucretian archaisms, from variation in the use of enjambment and the history of Hermann's bridge, that the versatile and expressive instrument the hexameter was to become in Vergil's hands was not the result of linear development. In fact, despite the pivotal role often assigned to Cicero, 2 (...)
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    Statius' Achilles and His Trojan Model.Elaine Fantham - 1979 - Classical Quarterly 29 (02):457-.
    Statius' last, unfinished poem, the Achilleid, is a more varied and charming work than readers of the The baid could ever have imagined, and is perhaps the most attractive approach to this highly imitative and professional poet. It is generally agreed that both Statius' diction and his narrative form are greatly influenced by Virgil and Ovid: but if he considered the Theban poem as his own Aeneid, we might fairly see the Achilleid as more akin to the Metamorphoses; (...) and epic devices may remain recognizably Virgilian, but the relaxed tone, the gentle irony and open humour take us into Ovid's world. As an illustration, the brief episode in which Thetis conveys her sleeping son from Thessaly over the sea to Scyros probably draws its original inspiration from Venus' substitution of Cupid for Ascanius in Aeneid 1: Venus' son procures his own arrival, but she spirits away the sleeping Ascanius; ‘at Venus Ascanio placidam per membra quietem/ irrigat et fotum gremio dea tollit in altos/Idaliae lucos’. (shrink)
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  18. Low Epic I.Low Epic - 2013 - Critical Inquiry 39 (3).
     
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  19. Tragedy and the tragic.Personauty in Greek Epic, Christopher Gill, Debra Hershkowitz & Herbert Hoffmann - 1998 - American Journal of Philology 119:309.
     
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    The coloniality of power from Gloria anzaldua to Arundhati Roy.Franco Moretti & Modern Epic - 2006 - In Linda Alcoff (ed.), Identity Politics Reconsidered. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 152.
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    Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, and Susan A. Stephens. Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi+ 328 pp. 4 maps. Cloth, $99. Baraz, Yelena. A Written Republic: Cicero's Philosophical Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. xi+ 252 pp. Cloth, $45. [REVIEW]Greek Epic Word-Making - 2012 - American Journal of Philology 133:701-705.
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    Epic Performed: The Poetic Nature of TV Series.Marco Segala - 2023 - Rivista di Estetica 83:39-56.
    In this paper I aim to test a general interpretation of television series as narrative epics, in the sense defined by Aristotle’s Poetics and canonised by Renaissance literary theorists.
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    Sophistic views of the epic past from the classical to the imperial age.Paola Bassino & Nicolò Benzi (eds.) - 2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse in ancient Greece: the epic tradition and the Sophists. The contributors show how throughout antiquity the epic tradition proved a flexible instrument to navigate new political, cultural, and philosophical contexts. The Sophists, both in the Classical and the Imperial age, continuously reconfigured the value of epic poetry according to the circumstances: using epic myths allowed the Sophists to (...)
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    Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India.Lídia Cabral, Poonam Pandey & Xiuli Xu - 2021 - Agriculture and Human Values 39 (1):249-267.
    The Green Revolution is often seen as epitomising the dawn of scientific and technological advancement and modernity in the agricultural sector across developing countries, a process that unfolded from the 1940s through to the 1980s. Despite the time that has elapsed, this episode of the past continues to resonate today, and still shapes the institutions and practices of agricultural science and technology. In Brazil, China, and India, narratives of science-led agricultural transformations portray that period in glorifying terms—entailing pressing national imperatives, (...)
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    An Epic of Technical Supremacy: Works and Words of Medieval Chinese Textile Technology. By Dieter Kuhn.Lothar von Falkenhausen - 2022 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 142 (3):759-761.
    An Epic of Technical Supremacy: Works and Words of Medieval Chinese Textile Technology. By Dieter Kuhn. Riggisberg (Switzerland): Abegg-Stiftung, 2022. Pp. 488. CHF 120.
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    Poetic Diction.David Lincicome & Gene Blocker - 1976 - Philosophy Today 20 (1):35-47.
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    The Epic of Evolution: A Course Developmental Project.Russell Merle Genet - 1998 - Zygon 33 (4):635-644.
    The Epic of Evolution is a course taught at Northern Arizona University. It engages the task of formulating a new epic myth that is based on the physical, natural, social, and cultural sciences. It aims to serve the need of providing meaning for human living in the vast and complex universe that the sciences now depict for us. It is an interdisciplinary effort in an academic setting that is often divided by specializations; it focuses on values in a (...)
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  28. Poetic Diction and Scientific Language.John Arthos - 1940 - Isis 32:324-338.
     
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  29. Diction and dialectic.Robert S. Brumbaugh - 1983 - In Kevin Robb (ed.), Language and thought in early Greek philosophy. La Salle, Ill.: Hegeler Institute.
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    Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art. Edited by Marika Sardar.Krista Gulbransen - 2022 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 138 (3).
    Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art. Edited by Marika Sardar. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2016. Pp. 164. $45. [Distr. by Yale Univ. Press.].
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    The Epic Today: Foreword.Vadime Elisseeff & Jennifer Curtiss Gage - 1998 - Diogenes 46 (181):1-5.
    The epic, one of the oldest forms of poetic expression, came into being and evolved in time immemorial, long before the appearance of writing - the advent of which, while helping to fix oral traditions since the dawn of history, has at the same time sapped these traditions of their freshness. Not until methods of recording and reproduction were perfected was the oral epic restored to its full compass as a work of enduring dimensions.
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    The Epic Cycle.T. W. Allen - 1908 - Classical Quarterly 2 (1):64-74.
    Enough and too much has been written about the Epic Cycle. Upon scanty quotations and a jejune epitome a tedious literature has been built. The older writers, such as Welcker, tried to ‘reconstruct’—as profitable and satisfying a task as inferring a burnt manor-house from its cellars; later scholars have gone out in tracing the tradition of the poems through the learned age of Greece—a scaffolding without ties, by which this or that conclusion is reached according to temperamental disposition to (...)
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    The Diction of Propertius.F. H. Sandbach - 1962 - The Classical Review 12 (01):55-.
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    Sexual conflict in the epics.Robin Fox - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (2):135-144.
    Sexual competition in the epics is looked at for examples of conflict between older or more powerful males and younger or subordinate males over fertile females, a pattern that would have characterized the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (EEA). In the Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Testament, the Arthurian Cycle (and its Celtic originals), the Volsunga Saga, and El Cid, this pattern is found to be the frame or prime mover or a central feature of the narrative. It is suggested (...)
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    The Diction of the Roman Matrons.—Plin. Epist. I. 16. 6.J. C. Rolfe - 1901 - The Classical Review 15 (09):452-453.
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    Poetic Diction and Scientific Language.John Arthos - 1940 - Isis 32 (2):324-338.
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    Flavian Epic.Antony Augoustakis (ed.) - 2016 - Oxford University Press.
    Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field.
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    Epic Poem or Adaptation to Catholic Doctrine? Two Polish Versions of Paradise Lost.Ursula Phillips - 2012 - The European Legacy 17 (3):349-365.
    The history of Milton's reception in Poland suggests that he was mainly seen as a model practitioner of epic poetry, rather than as a political or religious thinker. This conclusion is borne out by comparing two of the three complete translations of Paradise Lost into Polish—the first by Jacek Przybylski (1791), the second by Władysław Bartkiewicz (1902) (the third being Maciej Słomczyński's 1974 translation). The examination of a few crucial passages demonstrates that the earlier translation, Przybylski's, is more successful (...)
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  39. Epic into Elegy:: Propertius 4, 9, 70f.John Warden - 1982 - Hermes 110 (2):228-242.
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    The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer.Jasper Griffin - 1977 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 97:39-53.
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    The Diction of Roman Comedy.A. S. Gratwick - 1978 - The Classical Review 28 (01):73-.
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  42. Bakhtin on poetry, epic, and the novel: Behind the façade.Sergeiy Sandler - manuscript
    Mikhail Bakhtin has gained a reputation of a thinker and literary theorist somehow hostile to poetry, and more specifically to the epic. This view is based on texts, in which Bakhtin creates and develops a conceptual contrast between poetry and the novel (in "Discourse in the Novel") or between epic and the novel (in "Epic and Novel"). However, as I will show, such perceptions of Bakhtin's position are grounded in a misunderstanding of Bakhtin's writing strategy and philosophical (...)
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    Epic and Tragic Music: The Union of the Arts in the Eighteenth Century.Joshua Billings - 2011 - Journal of the History of Ideas 72 (1):99-117.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Epic and Tragic Music: The Union of the Arts in the Eighteenth CenturyJoshua BillingsI. The Union of the Arts in WeimarAround 1800 in Weimar, thought on Greek tragedy crystallized around the union of speech, music, and gesture—what Wagner would later call the Gesamtkunstwerk. Friedrich Schiller and Johann Gottfried Herder both found something lacking in modern spoken theater in comparison with ancient tragedy’s synthesis of the arts. Schiller’s 1803 (...)
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    Fidel Fajardo-Acosta: The Hero's Failure in the Tragedy of Odysseus: a Revisionist Analysis. (Studies in Epic and Romance Literature, 3.) Pp. xi + 269; 3 figs. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1990. $59.95. [REVIEW]Jennifer R. March - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (02):426-.
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    Fidel Fajardo-Acosta: The Hero's Failure in the Tragedy of Odysseus: a Revisionist Analysis. (Studies in Epic and Romance Literature, 3.) Pp. xi + 269; 3 figs. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1990. $59.95. [REVIEW]Jennifer R. March - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (2):426-426.
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    ILow Epic.Wai Chee Dimock - 2013 - Critical Inquiry 39 (3):614-631.
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    The Author of the Epic: Tolkien, Evolution, and God's Story.Austin M. Freeman - 2021 - Zygon 56 (2):500-516.
    I argue that, because God is the author of history and has a purpose for his creation, evolution has a plot and can be analyzed with tools drawn from literary criticism. This necessitates engagement with the “epic of evolution” genre of scientific literature. I survey several prominent versions of the epic and distinguish between a purely naturalistic epic of evolution and a goal‐oriented Christian epic of evolution (CEE). In dealing with CEE, I use the thought of (...)
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    Epic voices in statius’ achilleid: Calchas’ vision and ulysses’ plan.Francesca Econimo - 2021 - Classical Quarterly 71 (2):759-776.
    This article deals with Calchas’ prophecy and Diomedes’ and Ulysses’ interventions during the mustering of the Greeks at Aulis in Statius’ Achilleid. It will be argued that Calchas and Ulysses embody two different approaches to the generic tensions of the new epic which Statius’ poem represents. Calchas, the old uates of the Homeric tradition, seems unable to fully understand the ‘poetics of illusion’ enacted by Thetis and Achilles in disguise, as is clear from his vision. His point of view (...)
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  49. The Epic of the Raven Among the Paleoasiatics: Relations Between Northern Asia and Northwest America in Folklore.Elizar M. Meletinsky - 1980 - Diogenes 28 (110):98-133.
    The myths and tales relative to the Raven are among the most evident cultural elements which unite the peoples of Northeast Asia and those of Northwest America. In Asia as in America, the Raven appears in the role of civilizing hero and also in that of trickster and mythological rascal; moreover, a good number of subjects have a resonance on both sides of the Bering Sea. To identify these subjects, an attentive analysis of the folklore is often necessary, but the (...)
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    An Epic Party?Alexander Nikolaev - 2014 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 158 (1):10-25.
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