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Journal articles on the topic "Mythology, Greek – Poetry"

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Bashir, Burhan. "Insanity or Inspiration: A Study of Greek and Arab Thoughts on Poetry." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 5, no. 2 (2021): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol5no2.9.

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The nexus between poetry, insanity, and inspiration is peculiar and can be traced back to earlier centuries. There are many examples in Greek and Arab literature where poetry is believed to have connections with divinity, possession, or even madness. The paper will try to show what Greeks and Arabs thought about the origin and the creation of poetry. It will attempt to show how early mythology and legends of both assign a supernatural or abnormal source to poetry. References from these two cultures will show the similarity in some theories like that of muses and supernatural beings, helping th
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Su, Yujie. "Greek Mythology in 18th-to-19th English Romantic Poetry." OALib 03, no. 08 (2016): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1102773.

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Navarrete, Miquel Àngel, and Josep Maria Sala-Valldaura. "La tela de Penelope: Entre la Grècia clàssica i la poesia catalana actual." Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 1 (July 1, 1988): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/zfk.1988.93-105.

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This essay examines the explicit references to Greek literature in Catalan poetry since 1980. For the first time, it examines how the Catalan poets include the mythology, philosophy and art of classical Hellas today – after the formative "noucentist" tradition of Carles Riba and Salvador Espriu – in their works. The diverse reception of Greek motifs is illustrated using selected examples. The subject areas are limited to a few central myths – primarily to the figure of the cunning Ulysses.
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Mahato, Amar Shankar. "Mythology and Symbolism in A.K. Ramanujan’s Poem “A River”." Current Perspectives in Educational Research 6, no. 1 (2023): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/cuper.2023.4.

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A.K. Ramanujan was a celebrated poet who demonstrated remarkable talent in incorporating mythology and symbolism into his poetry. In “A River,” Ramanujan employs mythological allusions to enrich the poem’s meaning. A.K. Ramanujan’s poem “A River” showcases his mastery in employing mythology and symbolism to convey profound meanings. This research paper delves into the intricate web of mythological allusions and symbolic imagery used by Ramanujan in “A River.” It explores their significance in unravelling the poem’s multi-layered meanings. It underscores the broader implications of mythology an
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Dobroshi, Veron. "Recontextualization of the Greek myths in the poetry of Ismail Kadare." Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură, no. 1 (May 2023): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.59295/dia.2023.1.10.

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Mythology and literature are closely related and this has been proven by numerous literary works throughout history. This study focuses on the influence of Greek myths in the poetry of Ismail Kadare, one of the most well-known and valued Albanian authors in the world. Although this author is better known for his prose works, we should not forget the fact that his poetry also carries some important elements that should not be ignored and forgotten. In this study, some characteristics and elements of the Greek myths that are manifested in the verses of Kadare will be analyzed; it will be shown h
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Li, Kunyuan, Ruoyu Li, Manxi Liu, Xinwen Liu, and Bingxin Xie. "A Mysticism Approach to Yeats Byzantium." Communications in Humanities Research 4, no. 1 (2023): 438–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/4/20220657.

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William Butler Yeats is the most famous poet in the history of modern Irish literature. He is called the greatest poet of our time by T.S Eliot. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He has a strong interest in mysticism and has made unremitting exploration of it throughout his life. Mysticism is an important source of Yeatss life creation. From the early collection of Irish folklore and mythology to the formation of the later mysterious system, Yeats constructed his own set of mythological systems. Yeats mysticism is particularly evident in his poem Byzantium. His poems are f
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Desta, Dagnachew. "Genealogy of Ancient Philosophy in View of the “Great Quarrel”: Towards an Expository Essay." Athens Journal of Philosophy 2, no. 2 (2023): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-2-2.

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This article attempts to offer a critical account of the genealogy of ancient Greek philosophy in its bid to transcend the old ruling mythopoeic culture. With this in mind, emphasis is given more to the speculative character of Greek thought rather than its technical and detailed aspects. In my account of the origin of Greek philosophy, I use Plato’s famous pronouncement (Plato, The Republic, Tenth Book) about the great quarrel between philosophy and poetry as a context to provide my analysis. In dealing with the question at hand, I develop the following interrelated claims. First, Greek philo
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Showerman, Earl. "A Century of Scholarly Neglect: Shakespeare and Greek Drama." Journal of Scientific Exploration 37, no. 2 (2023): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20233109.

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a number of Shakespeare scholars, including Israel Gollancz (1894), H.R.D. Anders (1904), J. Churton Collins (1904), and Gilbert Murray (1914) wrote convincingly of Shakespeare’s debt to classical Greek drama. However, in the century since, most scholars and editors have repeatedly held that Shakespeare was not familiar with Greek drama. In Classical Mythology in Shakespeare (1903), Robert Kilburn Root expressed the opinion on Shakespeare’s ‘lesse Greek’ that presaged this enduring dismissal: “It is at any rate certain that he nowhere alludes to any c
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Riaz, Sana, Ayaz Ahmad Aryan, and Marina Khan. "Analyzing Hellenistic Elements in Keats’s Poetry- with Special Reference to His Tales in Verse." Global Social Sciences Review VII, no. I (2022): 455–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(vii-i).42.

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This study incorporates elements of myths and feministic beauty in inter-contextual structure in John Keats' poetry. This research is majorly concerned with the use of ancient Greek mythology and the elements of feminine beauty in Keats' mythological poetry. The study investigates Keats's search for truthfulness and beauty, his identification of love for poetry and his creation of his poetic genius with special reference to feminine beauty in his poetic works. The research is descriptive and qualitative in nature the framework is established by reviewing related poems and previous literature.
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Makhortova, Varvara. "Classical Antiquity in the Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breiner Andresen." Stephanos Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 44, no. 6 (2020): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2020-44-6-96-102.

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The article analyses the influence of Ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, noticeable in the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. The results of the analysis show that Sophia de Mello’s poetry, seemingly non-philosophic, is based on the ideas close to the theories proposed by ancient philosophers from Pre-Socratics philosophers to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The ideas of the unity between the human being and the Universe, as well as Plato’s theory of the Truth, the Good and the Beauty gain the special importance for the Portuguese writer. The ancient myths are reinterpreted by Sop
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mythology, Greek – Poetry"

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Breitenberger, Barbara M. "Aphrodite and Eros : the development of erotic mythology in early Greek poetry and cult." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395290.

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Barnes, Michael H. "Inscribed kleos : aetiological contexts in Apolonius of Rhodes /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091898.

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Hirsch, Rachel. "Ariadne and the poetics of abondonment : echoes of loss and death in Heroides 10 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7681.

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Petrella, Bernardo Ballesteros. "Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cfd1affe-f74b-48c5-98db-aba832a7dce8.

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This thesis charts divine assembly scenes in ancient Mesopotamian narrative poetry and the early Greek hexameter corpus, and aims to contribute to a cross-cultural comparison in terms of literary systems. The recurrent scene of the divine gathering is shown to underpin the construction of small- and large-scale compositions in both the Sumero-Akkadian and early Greek traditions. Parts 1 and 2 treat each corpus in turn, reflecting a methodological concern to assess the comparanda within their own context first. Part 1 (Chapters 1-4) examines Sumerian narrative poems, and the Akkadian narratives
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Bocksberger, Sophie Marianne. "Telamonian Ajax : a study of his reception in Archaic and Classical Greece." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a9bacb2a-7ede-4603-9e6a-bf7f492332ed.

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This thesis is a systematic study of the representations of Telamonian Ajax in archaic and classical Greece. Its aim is to trace, examine, and understand how and why the constitutive elements of his myth evolved in the way they did in the long chain of its receptions. Particular attention is paid to the historical, socio-cultural and performative contexts of the literary works and visual representations I analyse as well as to the audience for which these were produced. The study is divided into three parts, each of which reflects a different reality in which Ajax has been received (different
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Hudson, Dorothy May. "Aspects of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica : a literary assessment." Title page, contents and foreword only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPM/09armh885.pdf.

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Silverblank, Hannah. "Monstrous soundscapes : listening to the voice of the monster in Greek epic, lyric, and tragedy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f66a7bb1-de17-46f2-b79f-c671c149c366.

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Although mythological monsters have rarely been examined in any collective and comprehensive manner, they constitute an important cosmic presence in archaic and classical Greek poetry. This thesis brings together insights from the scholarly areas of 'monster studies' and the 'sensory turn' in order to offer readings of the sounds made by monsters. I argue that the figure of the monster in Greek poetry, although it has positive attributes, does not have a fixed definition or position within the cosmos. Instead of using definitions of monstrosity to think about the role and status of Greek monst
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Criado, Cecilia. "La teología de la Tebaida Estaciana el anti-virgilianismo de un clasicista /." Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43944306.html.

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Carmo, Neto Julio Maria do. "Metamorfoses X, o livro de Orfeu : estudo introdutorio, tradução e notas." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269122.

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Orientador: Marcos Aurelio Pereira<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T02:58:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarmoNeto_JulioMariado_M.pdf: 486382 bytes, checksum: d9bf65f7ed3fb8a498a9152496dd362b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009<br>Resumo: Este trabalho versa sobre o mito de Orfeu, narrado pelo poeta romano Ovídio em sua obra as Metamorfoses. Focamo-nos no aspecto artístico dessa personagem, que freqüentemente é considerada o poeta, cantor e músico arquetípico. A seção da obra em que ela se
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Ginard, Puigserver Maria. "BIOI. Tradicions biogràfiques dels poetes mítics grecs." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/314387.

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La construcció de les tradicions biogràfiques dels poetes mítics grecs va començar a gestar-se des de les primeres manifestacions literàries gregues i es va prolongar durant segles. Al llarg d’aquest període, aquestes figures van ser adoptades amb finalitats diverses i van encaixar en els usos i les necessitats individuals o col·lectius d’autors literaris, grups de culte o interessos polítics. A més a més, la construcció biogràfica d’aquests poetes comparteix processos i mecanismes de caracterització similars als que van fer servir les tradicions dels poetes històrics i d’altres operadors cult
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Books on the topic "Mythology, Greek – Poetry"

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Parry, Hugh. Thelxis: Magic and imagination in Greek myth and poetry. University Press of America, 1992.

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Natanblut, Erez. Andromeda, Antiope and Nauplius. Laodamia Press, 2006.

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Chénier, Monique. Remembering Medusa remembering. Your Scrivener Press, 2007.

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Hutchinson, G. O. Hellenistic poetry. Clarendon Press, 1988.

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Juan, Salzano, ed. Invocaciones: Cuatro poetas en la voz del mito. Ediciones Ruinas Circulares, 2011.

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Coffey, Marilyn. A Cretan cycle: Fragments unearthed from Knossos. Bandanna Books, 1991.

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Marion, Giebel, ed. Hero und Leander. Insel Verlag, 2009.

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Nadal, Giovanni Girolamo. Leandreride. Antenore, 1996.

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McCabe, Steve. Orpheus and Eurydice: Part 1 : Before the descent (a poetic dialogue). Lyricalmyrical Press, 2006.

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Parker, Terry. Two boys of Icaria. Pacific Press, 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mythology, Greek – Poetry"

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Horyna, Břetislav. "Prométheus například. Moc mýtu, distance a přihlížení podle Hanse Blumenberga." In Filosofie jako životní cesta. Masaryk University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9458-2019-8.

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The Study Prometheus, for example loosely follows up the central theme of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth and mythology, the character of Prometheus and Promethean conceptions in scientific as well as imaginative literature (poetry and drama). The aim is not an elaborate reflection of all the variations on Promethean themes that were summarized in Blumenberg’s epochal book Work on Myth (1979). The author rather selects some themes from the works on the myth about Prometheus in Classical Greek literature (Hesiod, Aeschylus) and, at the turn of modernism, in German movement Sturm und Drang (Goethe). Most attention is paid to a fictional figure known as actio per distans (action at distance, with keeping a distance) and its variations from the distance between people and gods through the distance between people to the distance of an ageing poet from spirit of the age (Zeitgeist), to which he no longer belongs.
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology." In Empire Under the Microscope. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_2.

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AbstractIn this chapter Taylor-Pirie examines how parasitologists invoked myths of British nationhood in their professional self-fashioning to frame themselves as knights of science fighting on behalf of Imperial Britain. Analysing scientific lectures, political speeches, letter correspondence, obituaries, medical biographies, and journalistic essays, she draws attention to the prominence of Arthurian legend and Greco-Roman mythology in conceptualisations of parasitology, arguing that such literary-linguistic practices sought to reimagine the relationship between medicine and empire by adapting historical and poetic models of chivalry. In this way, individual researchers were lionised as national heroes and their research framed as labour that could command the longevity of legendary stories like those recounted in Homeric poems and medieval romance. In acclimatisation debates, the tropics were frequently conceptualised in relation to the Greek Underworld, a suite of references that together with dragon slaying and the quest narrative helped to position parasitology as a type of ‘crusading fiction’ in the context of the Victorian medieval revival.
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"11. Poetry and the Ideology of the Polis: The Symbolism of Apportioning Meat." In Greek Mythology and Poetics. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501732027-014.

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Nieto Hernández, Pura. "The Mythographical Impulse in Early Greek Poetry." In The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190648312.013.2.

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Abstract This chapter proposes that the distinction between mythology and mythography, despite their differences, is less sharp than is often assumed. It is common to establish a strong divide between an “original,” “creative,” mythmaking era that coincides with oral poetic compositions and a later, merely imitative, explanatory, and unoriginal period marked by written prose texts. But if mythography seems concise and dry, lacking the rich nuances of poetic expression, this owes to differences of genre or modes of composition rather than to date or nearness to a supposed primary, inspired period of Greek mythmaking. It is therefore possible to see how some characteristic features of mythography (such as the systematization, ordering, expurgation, and interpretation of stories) are also employed in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and by Hesiod and other archaic poets. For example, catalogues and genealogies are frequently used in archaic poetry and by the mythographers as a means of ordering and systematizing scattered stories. Common to both, too, is an acknowledgment of different versions of a story and the rectification of elements considered erroneous or impious. Finally, the interpretative aspect of mythography can also be found in the archaic poets, who often employ etymological explanations of words or names and other types of glosses, and even full-blown allegory. All these categories overlap, as the examples provided attest. Whether early poets were or not aware of these features as constituting distinct mythographical modes, the typology proposed here should suffice to show that mythography is coeval with what we understand by mythology.
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Domaradzki, Mikolaj. "Antisthenes and Allegoresis." In Early Greek Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758679.003.0017.

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“Antisthenes and Allegoresis” examines the question of Antisthenes’ allegoresis. First, the chapter shows that persistent disagreement among scholars on this topic arises from divergent understandings of what qualifies as allegorical interpretation. Subsequently, the chapter demonstrates that those Antisthenean interpretations that are most frequently categorized as allegorical illustrate broader controversies in research on allegoresis such as whether allegoresis should be defined in terms of its intentionality and whether allegoresis should be defined in terms of its obviousness. Finally, the chapter suggests that Antisthenes’ diversified approach to epic poetry and traditional mythology was conducive to the development of two distinct traditions: a rationalist one and an allegorist one.
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Fahey, Diane. "Working with Greek Mythology: A Journey through Images." In Feminist Poetics of Sacredtne. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195144680.003.0012.

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Abstract My interest in Greek mythology began in the early 1980s and led to my writing two collections of poetry based on Greek mythology: Metamorphoses (1988), which centers on female figures in Greek myth, and Listening to a Far Sea (1998), which is mainly about male figures. At the time I began, I was aware of the way myths could offer insight into some of the abiding patterns and themes in human experience-developmental issues, the quest for freedom and self-realization, finding a place and way of being in the world, the facing of death and suffering-and I soon became acquainted with the work of writers such as Christine Downing (1996) and Ginette Paris (1990) who were using myth as a tool of personal differentiation and cultural exploration with a specifically feminist focus.
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Borchmeyer, Dieter. "In Search of a Lost Style: Wagner’s Ideal of ‘Classical Form’." In Richard Wagner. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780193153226.003.0007.

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Abstract In his open letter to Nietzsche of 12 June 1872 (a letter prompted by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorffs critique of Nietzsche’s Die Geburt der Tragödie) Wagner voices his enthusiasm for ‘classical antiquity’, dating his interest in the language, mythology, poetry, and history of ancient Greece from his childhood years. Although he had been denied a thorough philological training, he had, he goes on, gradually distilled ‘an ideal perception of art’ (ix. 296) from his study of antiquity—by which he invariably meant Greek antiquity. (In general he held a low opinion of Roman antiquity, which he was even led, on occasion, to dismiss altogether.) In Mein Leben he traces in detail the Greek influences on his view of the world and on his aesthetic thinking, and it is significant that, as with Hölderlin, whose Hyperion he naturally held in low esteem (CT, 24 December 1873 and passim), these influences were mixed with contemporary impressions gained during childhood, notably his enthusiasm for the Greek War of lndependence.
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Reuter, Victoria. "Iberian Sibyl." In Homer's Daughters. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802587.003.0012.

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Winner of Spain’s national poetry prize, Francisca Aguirre is the author of the long poem Itáca (1972), a reconceptualization of the island home of Penelope and Odysseus. Aguirre’s engagement with myth is both reactionary and revisionary as it responds to the idea of Ithaca as symbolic homeland and as the impetus for a liberating, life-changing journey. Inspired by the poetry of Greek writer C. P. Cavafy, Itáca is also in dialogue with the mythology of place, exile, recognition, and the restructuring of identity. However, as a woman encountering his work decades later in Francoist Spain, Aguirre found that Cavafy, like Homer, promised a journey that was not accessible to her. Thus, her poem becomes an investigation of how narratives of the self are limited by social expectations and how divergent subjectivities are silenced, and reborn.
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Vetter, Lara. "H.D. and Spirituality." In The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion, edited by Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474494786.003.0004.

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More than any other modernist, H.D. made of religion, occultism, mythology, spirituality, spiritualism, and paranormal experience a life-long study. Her breadth and depth of knowledge about these subjects are unparalleled among her peers, her appetite voracious. Her personal library contained an astounding array of books on a range of subjects, including Eastern and Western mysticism; Swedenborgianism; the Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita, tales of the Buddha, the Midrash, and the Apocrypha; theosophy and theories of Atlantis; Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, American Indian, and Greek mythology; spiritualism and ghosts; reincarnation; magic, astrology; Tarot, prophecy, witchcraft, fortune telling, cheirognomy, and cheiromancy; parapsychology; Hermeticism; angels and saints; Gnosticism; Katharism and the Kabbalah; and the Amish and Moravian sects. Offering readings of her poetry and prose engaged with spirituality, this comprehensive overview traces the trajectory of her intensive study of heterodox spirituality from birth to the end of her life, represents the extraordinary breadth of her knowledge, and treats everyday aspects of her practices, including the ways in which the sexual and spiritual are intertwined.
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Trapp, M. B. "Soldier and Farmer." In Maximus of Tyre. Oxford University PressOxford, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198149897.003.0018.

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Abstract This contrasting pair of lectures debates another civic-ethical issue, to do with the kind of people and activities that the good State should contain and encourage. It is thus comparable (though on a less philosophical level) to Orr. 1, 3, 4, 12, 14, 15-16, 17, 18-21, 25, 26, and 37. Or. 23 puts the case for supposing that soldiers are of superior value to farmers, arguing successively from the evidence of Homer’s poetry (§ 1), the histories of the great Greek and barbarian states (§§2-4a), the animal kingdom (§4b), divine mythology (§ 5a), and the myth of the golden age (§ 5b), before carrying its assault to the enemy camp with the observation that farming, far from being an alternative to fighting, is in fact one of its most fertile causes (§§6-7).
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