How new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world.
Tim Whitmarsh Livres
Tim Whitemarsh est un éminent spécialiste de la culture grecque, dont le travail explore la littérature et la société des périodes hellénistique et romaine. Ses analyses pénètrent les profondeurs de la pensée antique, examinant des thèmes tels que la croyance, le scepticisme et la recherche de sens dans un monde en mutation. Le style de Whitemarsh est reconnu pour son érudition et sa capacité à faire revivre le passé pour le lecteur moderne, offrant ainsi un aperçu captivant de la vie et de l'esprit de nos prédécesseurs antiques.
Cambridge Classical Classics: Interaction in Poetic Imagery
With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry - Second Edition
- 318pages
- 12 heures de lecture
This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of Greek lyric and drama up to and including Aeschylus and Pindar. Several hundred passages are systematically examined, with many passages from English verse introduced to provide illustration. Using these, Michael Silk formulates a new critical concept, 'interaction', which characterises certain features of metaphor and other imagery and explores in detail their nature and significance. He then proceeds to discuss related issues in the fields of stylistics and literary theory, give fresh insights into several features of ancient literature, and - above all - make important contributions to the theory and practice of 'literary lexicography' in a dead language. This reissue contains a substantial new Introduction engaging with critical and scholarly developments since first publication.