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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Jeffrey M. Perl William Fitzgerald , The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 ), 272 pp., and A. E. Stallings , trans., The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic , with illustrations by Grant...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 277–283.
Published: 01 May 2016
... tale master narrative subversive storytelling concrete utopia Homeric epics Symposium: Peace by Other Means, Part 6 ONCE UPON A TIME Changing the World through Storytelling Jack Zipes A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 249–254.
Published: 01 April 2012
... his astronomical poem was second only to that of the Homeric epics. of the that to only second was poem astronomical his of popularity the antiquity in much, very donot readAratus classicists modern even though poets: famous most oneof their quoting by hearers Hellenic his...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 January 2007
... Agamemnon treated treated Agamemnon how things, those recall I when anger with swells heart “My is: word final Achilles’ gifts, boundless with him compensate to offering ( dishonored mehas [ Agamemnon “wide-ruling motherThetis, his to the in Homeric epics; employthey other terms...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 91–100.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... in notwomen all are that them Iremind Second, uncritically. and wholesale times Homer, his epic,and his notwe must dismiss mistreated, and silenced, dismissed, women were radically when history from a momentin comes text this though even that first, explain, to best my try and I...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 344–345.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the a“Homer”in and century, late eighth the in Hesiod with comes awell- certainly was but epic poetry BC, century eighth end of the the from Greece Age Bronze post- in known only was matter. Writing subject about his many than informed better is author new here, but the little...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the a“Homer”in and century, late eighth the in Hesiod with comes awell- certainly was but epic poetry BC, century eighth end of the the from Greece Age Bronze post- in known only was matter. Writing subject about his many than informed better is author new here, but the little...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 497–511.
Published: 01 August 2007
... by literary pro Homeric epics, abounds in narratives containing some of these features; but pre which people live. actually worldin the detail in depicting to paid now was attention more much Finally, “closefilms.) up,” ofthe his that for D. by inventedW. with Griffith effect...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (3): 377–425.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of use sufficiently long ago to have become inac- cessible to Milton himself. For Milton seems to have sensed a problem with the extended Homeric comparisons which epic usage required him to use in his own epic. So when he introduces a number of extended epic similes into the first book of Paradise...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 550–553.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Last Vanities is assistant professor of history at the University ofVirginia. University atthe ofhistory professor assistant is Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 367–371.
Published: 01 April 2015
... ; Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America White in Man Black The Denied: Justice The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s “Odyssey” Homer’s of History ACultural Ulysses...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 347–351.
Published: 01 May 2016
...” Award in 2007. in Award Homer of Art theOral of Tradition:AStudy...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Homer” been born beneath French skies under the Sun King, his epics would have turned out flawless. 12 A sure sign of improvement in taste is that a poet like Ovid was not appreciated during his lifetime yet became “ever more famous with each passing age”; the relative obscurity of Ovid shows him...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 April 2004
... sometimes referred to—offhandedly and somewhat imprecisely—as Stoicism. The great heroes of Homer, Sophocles, and Virgil (“the highest type that wisdom is able to produce or art reproduce”) are not Stoic characters.2 Achilles, Oedipus, and even Aeneas “express their pain and allow nature to honestly...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 110–127.
Published: 01 January 2010
...!) “St!”onomatopoeic The ofsilence. gesture the making foreground the pocrates, depicted as a boy with a cornucopia overflowingwith flowers,stands in Har Nonnus. Homer, and Hesiod, Orpheus, marked are plants of rows the of metrically ordered rows of geo delicate him, Behind plants...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 261–278.
Published: 01 April 2006
...-Roman epic and drama. obses even insistently, returns which Asians, and Europeans between contest the is example An Trojan War,the a past. to confined butnomeans by history ancient of part as taught affair, ancient an already was warfare global ancients, is only to remind us...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., disarm permanently. The two are doing no more than enjoying an intermission between slaughters, and, at any rate, she looks more enraptured with him than he with her. To my eye, it is love disarmed by war that Rubens and Brueghel show P er l X en o p h il ia : P ar t 5 6 9 5. Homer, Iliad, bk. 19, 458...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 395–411.
Published: 01 August 2009
...” to the novel. The epilogue tends to baffle readers, first, because its relationship to the rest of the book seems unclear, and, second, because it assaults our most basic ideas about history and the limits of the individual will. Whether consciously or not, we are likely to think that history is an epic...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 50–78.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., London Figure 2.AbyWarburg, Voltaireto Homer orGoethe orAeschylus — projects. relevant strikingly ofview,point all are acommunist from composed history, of contemporary tragedies on the images Huberman, Huberman...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 463–476.
Published: 01 August 2007
... a substantial chapter to his work. There Julio found what single eye.” a with wrote who poet “the another yet eyebrows,” without poet “the dubbed was another liver,” burning the of poet “the was One poem. epic outrageous an in characters like epithets, Homeric with baptized were...