Aristotle as poet [[electronic resource] ] : the song for Hermias and its contexts / / Andrew Ford

• Record Nr.: UNISA996218224403316
• Autore: Ford Andrew Laughlin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-16462-0; 9786613164629; 0-19-983814-3
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 881/.01
• Soggetti: Poetry
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. The Text""; ""Aristotle: The Song for Hermias""; ""Sources and First Reading""; ""2. History and Context""; ""Deconstructing Atarneus: Questions of Method""; ""Constructing Hermias: The Erythraean Inscription""; ""The End of Hermias: Theopompusâ€?s Letter to Philip""; ""3. Performance and Occasion""; ""Commemorative Epigrams: Aristotle and Simonides""; ""Book Epigrams: Theocritus of Chios""; ""Texts and Things: Herodotus on Hermotimus""; ""4. Performance and Context""; ""Witnesses: Callisthenesâ€? Hermias""; ""Sources: Hermippusâ€?s On Aristotle""""Authenticity: “Aristotleâ€?sâ€? Apology""; ""5. Genres of Poetry""; ""Lyric Genres from Plato to Alexandria""; ""Impious Song: The Paean to Lysander""; ""Paean, Hymn, Skolion?""; ""6. Kinds of Hymn""; ""Hymnic Form: Ariphronâ€?s Paean to Health""; ""Hymnic Flexibility: Pindarâ€?s Fourteenth Olympic Ode""; ""Hymns in Hexameters: “Homerâ€? and Aristotle""; ""7. Ethos""; ""Ethos in Debate: An Attic Skolion and a Poem by Sappho""; ""Ethos in Protreptic: Aristotleâ€?s Hymn to Hermias, vv. 1â€?8""; ""Ethos in Epiphany: Immortal Virtue in Sophoclesâ€? Philoctetes""""8. Reading""; ""Troping: (omitted) in Euripides and Bacchylides""; ""Mythologizing: Hymn to Hermias, vv. 9â€?16""; ""Immortalizing: Hymn to Hermias, vv. 17â€?21""; ""9. Endurance""; ""Memorial: Aristotleâ€?s Elegiacs to Eudemus""; ""Survival: A Letter from Plato""; ""NOTES""; ; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""GENERAL INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""X""
• Sommario/riassunto: Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is a comprehensive study of Aristotle's poetic activity, interpreting his remaining fragments in relation to the earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time.

Higher education at risk : strategies to improve outcomes, reduce tuition, and stay competitive in a disruptive environment / / Sandra Featherman ; foreword by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797059003321
• Autore: Featherman Sandra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sterling, Virgina : , : Stylus Publishing, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-00-344508-X; 1-000-97293-3; 1-003-44508-X; 1-62036-069-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.3/8
• Soggetti: College costs - United States
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Higher education at risk -- Nonprofit colleges: strengths and weaknesses -- Why college costs are so high -- How the for-profits do it -- Case studies, opportunities, and challenges -- Some prescriptions for higher education.