1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153561603321

Autore

Gildenhard Ingo <1970->

Titolo

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, glossary of terms, vocabulary aid and study questions / / Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2016

Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2016

ISBN

1-78374-085-X

2-8218-8404-4

1-78374-084-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Classic textbooks ; ; 5

Disciplina

871.01

Soggetti

Humanities

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Ovid and His Times -- 2. Ovid's Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic -- 3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum -- 3a. Genre Matters -- 3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales -- 3c. A Universal History -- 3d. Anthropological Epic -- 3e. A Reader's Digest of Greek and Latin Literature -- 4. Ovid's Theban Narrative -- 5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus -- 5a. Sources and Intertexts -- 5b. The Personnel of the Set Text -- 6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture -- Text -- Commentary -- 511–26: Tiresias' Warning to Pentheus -- 527–71: Pentheus' Rejection of Bacchus -- 531–63: Pentheus' Speech -- 572–691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale -- 692–733: Pentheus' Gruesome Demise -- Appendices -- 1. Versification -- 2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures

Sommario/riassunto

This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of



Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb. The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions. This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821796603321

Titolo

Globalising migration history : the Eurasian experience (16th-21st centuries) / / edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27136-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Studies in Global Social History, , 1874-6705 ; ; Volume 15

Studies in Global Migration History ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

304.8095

Soggetti

Eurasians - Migrations - History

Immigrants - Eurasia - History

Globalization - Social aspects - Eurasia - History

Social change - Eurasia - History

Acculturation - Eurasia - History

Eurasia Emigration and immigration History

Russia Emigration and immigration History

Asia Emigration and immigration History

Eurasia Ethnic relations



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction / Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- Catherine’s Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia, 1500's–1914 / Willard Sunderland -- Measuring Migration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500–1900 / Gijs Kessler -- Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Vijaya Ramaswamy -- South Indian Migration, c. 1800–1950 / Sunil S. Amrith -- Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java / Ulbe Bosma -- Toward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750–1850 / Atsushi Ota -- The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and “Zomia” / Mireille Mazard -- Migration in an Age of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and Industrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900–2000 / Jelle van Lottum -- A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600–1900 / Adam McKeown -- Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850–1931 / Yuki Umeno -- From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War / Jianfa Shen -- Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600–2000 / Leo Lucassen , Osamu Saito and Ryuto Shimada -- Summary and Concluding Remarks / Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- References -- Name Index -- Geographical Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Globalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. The contributions in this volume, written by specialists on Russia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia and South East Asia, show that such a method offers a fruitful starting point for rigorous comparisons. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses, and thus reach a deeper understanding of the impact of cross-cultural migrations on social change. Contributors are: Sunil Amrith, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Mireille Mazard, Adam McKeown, Atsushi Ota, Vijaya Ramaswamy, Osamu Saito, Jianfa Shen, Ryuto Shimada, Willard Sunderland, and Yuki Umeno.