Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception (eBook, PDF)

Intersections of Myth, Science and History
Redaktion: Christenson, David; White, Cynthia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as ordering principles of human experience; divine birth and the manifold nature of divinity (both awesome and terrifying); contemplation of the sky and meteorological (ir)regularity; fears associated with overpowering natural and anthropogenic events; and the aspirations and limitations of human expression. In texts ranging from Homer to Keats, the volume's chapters apply diverse critical methods and approaches that engage with sublimity in various aesthetic, agential and metaphysical aspects. The ancient texts - epic, dramatic, historiographic and lyric - treated here are rooted in a remote world where, within a framework of (perceived) celestial order, literature, myth and science still communicated profoundly, a tradition that continued in literary receptions of these ancient works. This volume honours the intellectual legacy of Thomas D. Worthen, a scholar whose expertise and insights cut across multiple disciplines, and who influenced and inspired students and colleagues at the University of Arizona, USA, for over three decades. Beyond clarifying temporally and culturally distant contemplations of the human universe, these essays aim to inform the continuing sense of wonder and horror at the sublime heights and depths of our ever-changing cosmos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350344686
• Artikelnr.: 69577509

Autorenporträt

David Christenson is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of eight books, including Plautus: Casina (Bloomsbury, 2019). Cynthia White is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction
David Christenson (University of Arizona
USA) Part I - Sublime Epic 1. Homer's Odyssey and the Mystery of Time
Norman Austin (University of Arizona
USA) 2. Helen
Paris
and the Philosophical Eros: Love
Strife
and Sublime Contact from Homer to Plato
Boris Shoshitaishvili (University of Southern California
USA) 3. The Hard-Break at Hesiod
Theogony 200
Frank Romer (East Carolina University
USA) 4. Visions and Memories of Lucretius in Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones
Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College and Conservatory
USA) 5. Vergil's Bougonia Rite: Its Nature
Sources
and Possible Link to the Indo-European Myth of Creation
Michael Teske? (University of Arizona
USA) Part II - Celestial Drama 6. An Early Morning Person? Aristophanes and His Star-Studded Comic Prologues
Gonda van Steen (King's College London
UK) 7. Frighteningly Funny Gods: Comic and Cosmic Space in Plautus
David Christenson (University of Arizona
USA) Part III - History
Historiography
and the Cosmos 8. Day Suddenly Became Night: Eclipses and the Sublime in Greek Historiography
Philip Waddell (University of Arizona
USA) 9. The Cosmic Barrier: The Isthmus of Corinth in Imperial Latin Poetry
David Wright (University of Houston
USA) Part IV - Reception 10. Reading the Classics in Plague-Ridden England
1629-1722
Thomas Willard (University of Arizona
USA) 11. '"Solution Sweet" and Keats's Poetic Ideal: Erotic and Nuptial Imagery in The Eve of St. Agnes'
Cynthia White (University of Arizona
USA) Notes Bibliography Index