The Concept Of News In Ancient Greek Literature
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Author |
: Raquel Fornieles |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2022-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111022956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111022951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature by : Raquel Fornieles
The concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy. This concept is only modified by the social, political, and economic conditions that make our society different from theirs. In order to understand what was considered news in Ancient Greece, a lexical study of ἄγγελος and all of its derivatives attested in a representative corpus of the period spanning from the second millennium BC to the end of the fourth BC has been conducted. This piece of research provides new contributions both to studies in Classics (there are hardly any studies on the transmission of news in Antiquity) and in journalism. This study also reveals an interesting point: the presence of false news – similar to current fake news – in ancient Greek literature, especially in tragedy and historiography when it comes to the use of the derivatives of ἄγγελος.
Author |
: Diego De Brasi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3111392422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783111392424 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fake News in Ancient Greece by : Diego De Brasi
Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news in the ancient world have been carried out in the field of Roman history, the phenomenon of fake news in ancient Greece has received limited attention. The contributions in this volume offer a selective approach to this phenomenon by applying media and cultural studies instruments to ancient texts. They pinpoint parallels and differences between ancient and modern fake news by employing methods of literary and cultural studies, as well as historical-documentary analysis of ancient sources. In particular, they explore questions such as: To what extent does reflection on the concepts of truth, lie, and opinion influence ancient Greek political-rhetorical discourse? What is the political or social function of embedding 'misleading information' in ancient Greek historiographical texts or pamphlets? Which intentions are pursued with the help of fake news in literary and documentary texts? Can parallels be drawn with modern approaches to fake news? Thus, the volume investigates the mechanisms that historically lay behind the creation, dissemination, and adaptation of 'misleading information'.
Author |
: Tim Whitmarsh |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745627919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745627915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Literature by : Tim Whitmarsh
In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Whitmarsh offers new readings of some of the best-known and most influential authors of Greek antiquity, including Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristophanes and Plato, as well as introducing many lesser-known figures. Unlike conventional narrative histories, this volume focuses on the profound effects of literature within Greek society. Whitmarsh shows that literature, distributed via a range of social institutions, such as festivals, theatres, symposia and book production, played an important role in the legitimization – and challenging – of ideologies of gender, class and cultural identity. The volume also addresses the legacy of Greek literature: how the Victorian cult of Hellenism and its successors have structured the reception of ancient texts, and how and why the modern West has adopted the Greeks as its ancestors. This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.
Author |
: Clara Bosak-Schroeder |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520343481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520343484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Natures by : Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Sources and methods -- Rulers and rivers -- Female feck -- Dietary entanglements -- Resisting luxury -- After the encounter -- Transformation in the natural history museum.
Author |
: Athena Kirk |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1108744958 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108744959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Lists by : Athena Kirk
Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.
Author |
: Bruno Gentili |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 1990-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4967978 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece by : Bruno Gentili
Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Author |
: Irene J.F. de Jong |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 2017-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789047422938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9047422937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time in Ancient Greek Literature by : Irene J.F. de Jong
This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.
Author |
: Andrea Marcolongo |
Publisher |
: Europa Editions |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609455460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609455460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ingenious Language by : Andrea Marcolongo
An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times. For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today, nine chapters that will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, nine epic reasons to love Greek. The Ingenious Language is a love song dedicated to the language of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, adulterers, and generals. Greek, as Marcolongo explains in her buoyant and entertaining prose, is unsurpassed in its beauty and expressivity, but it can also offer us new ways of seeing the world and our place in it. She takes readers on an astonishing journey, at the end of which, while it may still be Greek to you, you’ll have nine reasons to be glad it is. No batteries or prior knowledge of Greek required! Praise for The Ingenious Language “Andrea Marcolongo is today’s Montaigne. She possesses an amazing familiarity with the classics combined with the ease and lightness of those who surf the web.” —André Aciman, New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me “[Marcolongo’s] declaration of love for Ancient Greek does more than celebrate the virtues of its grammar, it shows us modern fools how this language can help us understand ourselves better and live a better life.” —Le Monde (France)
Author |
: Marina McCoy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2013-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199672783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199672784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wounded Heroes by : Marina McCoy
McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.
Author |
: Robert Garland |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2020-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526754714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526754711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Survive in Ancient Greece by : Robert Garland
What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler’s guide is a fascinating way to find out . . . Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, and what help could you get if you got sick? All these questions, and many more, are answered in this engaging blend of self-help and survival guide that plunges you into this historical environment—and explains the many problems and strange new experiences you would face if you were there.