Poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome / edited by J. Virgilio García and Angel Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, J. Virgilio.

Ruiz, Angel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language.

Latin language.

Christianity and literature--Greece.

Christianity and literature.

Christianity and other religions in literature.

Christianity and literature--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains twenty-five contributions adapted from papers presented at the International Conference on Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela on 31tst May - 1st June 2012. The book fulfils two principal aims: to highlight the impulse and continuity of a research field that combines Indo-European and Classical Studies, which has generally been recognised for several decades as a very fruitful collaboration, and to provide the...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INDO-EUROPEAN POETIC LANGUAGE; GODS AND VOWELS; SOME LINGUISTIC DEVICESOF THE GREEK POETICAL TRADITION; IN TENGA BITHNUA Y LA LENGUA ANGÉLICA; RUMPELSTILZCHEN; RELIGIOUS ONOMASTICSIN ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY; TWO EPITHETS OF ZEUS IN LACONIAIN THE LIGHT OF HOMERIC PHRASEOLOGY; TAPTAPOZ; RELIGIOUS ETYMOLOGYAND POETIC SYNCRETISM AT ROME; ANCIENT LINGUISTIC, LITERARYAND RELIGIOUS ELEMENTSIN KALLIMACHOS AND CHRYSORRHOE; RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN GREEKAND LATIN LITERATURE; POESÍA Y RITUAL EN LA GRECIA ANTIGUA; CONSULTING THE GODS IN THE ODYSSEY

'RELIGIOUS REGISTER' AND COMEDY:THE CASE OF CRATINUSORACLES AND RIDDLES AMBO FRATRES; LATE ANTIQUE ORACLES; EN TORNO AL VOCABULARIORELIGIOSO HELENÍSTICO; INTERTEXTUALITYAND THE CULTIC DIMENSIONIN LYCOPHRON'S REWRITING OF MYTH; THE ACHILLES' OATH IN HOM. IL. 1.236-244:INTERTEXTUALITY AND SURVIVAL; PLEGARIA E HIMNO LITERARIO; THE MAGICIANS WHO SANG TO THE GODS; THESEA DEVOVI; EL HIMNO DE ADRASTO A APOLOEN LA TEBAIDA DE ESTACIO; POETIC AND RELIGIOUSTRADITIONALISM IN AVIENUS; VENUS, CERES AND OVID; MAGIC AS A POETIC PROCESS; POETIC AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN ROMANTRAGIC FRAGMENTS CONCERNING MEDEA

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5565-0

OCLC:

868489209