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"The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite": Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame
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This article is published in Classical Antiquity.The article was published on 1989-04-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Praise & Blame.read more
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Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid
TL;DR: Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid as mentioned in this paper, and Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneidian.
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The Hymn to Demeter and the Homeric Hymns1.
TL;DR: In any history of Greek mythological writing, the longer Homeric Hymns deserve a place of honour as discussed by the authors and are the almost unique vehicle of a distinctive and important form of narrative about the divine world.
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Nature, culture and the body in classical Greek religious art
TL;DR: The relationship between nature, culture and social action in cult statues in archaic and classical Greece is explored in this article, where the focus is shifted from decoding the meanings of images, to understanding how artistic languages work to create expressive effects in particular institutional settings.
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The Muses' Uncanny Lies: Hesiod, Theogony 27 and Its Translators
TL;DR: In the early Greek epic Theogony 27, the Muses mysteriously claimed to tell only the truth, because even their lies were somehow equivalent to truth as discussed by the authors, and therefore they could be interpreted as "lies resembling truth." Since the nature of the equivalence is left unelaborated, the line poses a riddling paradox.
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Narrative discourse : an essay in method
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
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A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance.
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A Natural Perspective: The Development Of Shakespearean Comedy And Romance.
TL;DR: Frye as discussed by the authors argued that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances -Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest -are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.
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Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb
TL;DR: Goodwin this article presents a detailed and well organized discussion of moods, tenses, infinitive, participles, and verbal adjectives in the 1867 edition of the book.