The Function of the Heroic Myth in the Encomium. [From: Actes de la 12e conférence intenationale d'études classiques Eirene]. Cluj-Napoca 2-7 octobre 1972.

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Published by Bucuresti: Editura Academiei, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1975

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pp. 295-305. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Binding a bit bumped, stamp, author's name and numbering handwritten on cover, otherwise clean. - From the text: From its very beginnings the political encomium was tensely and competitively related to the heroic myth. Following the paradoxical eulogies, such as The Eulogy on Helen, the first political encomium, Evagoras clearly outruns the various traditional forms of the heroic hymn-the epinicion, the lyrical encomium, the scolion or the threnos. The rhetorical encomium implies a sharp distinction between the representation of mythical heroism on the one hand, and contemporary personalities on the other. However, this is not the only difference. Simonides as well sang the virtues of a Scopas and the tyrannicides Harmodios and Aristogeiton were celebrated in a famous Attic scolion. The opposition arises from two specific modes of conception within the more comprehensive contrast between fiction and veridical report. According to Nestles well-chosen formula, the evolution from poetry to prose accompanies the transition from mythology to rationality and the victory of logos over Mythos. The change in outlook operated by this Enlightenment of a Sophistic tinge could be qualified as modernism since the present gets free from and opposed to the patterns of mythic-epic representation. Thucydides chapters of Archeology reveal the superiority of contemporary over mythological time and Euripides characters attest the ardent interest in modern psychological questions. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Title
The Function of the Heroic Myth in the Encomium. [From: Actes de la 12e conférence intenationale d'études classiques Eirene]. Cluj-Napoca 2-7 octobre 1972.
Author
Cizek, Alexander N.:
Publisher
Bucuresti: Editura Academiei, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert
Publication year
1975
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Gut
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Reprint.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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