antigone translated by elizabeth wyckoff

Other essays touch upon various aspects of Vergil's material and cultural environment, enabling readers to place his created work in a broader perspective. Several essays examine the poet's modus creandi-his use of the simile his assimilation of the language and motifs of Roman comic drama his exploitation of the rich store of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman mythological, legendary, and historical material and his treatment of a variety of themes which touch upon the very essence of the human condition. Vergil's world presents two faces, each inseparable from the other-the world which formed the poet and the world which the poet himself created-and it is proper that a volume which commemorates a scholar whose own work has elucidated both of these worlds should address itself to each. The Two Worlds of the Poet focuses primarily on Vergil and Augustan literature and art, with several essays that expand the Vergilian theme and reflect the wide research interests of Professor McKay in such areas of classical studies as literature, art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. McKay's scholarship has so richly illuminated. Written by some of the world's leading scholars, the essays offer new perspectives on the larger Vergilian world which Dr. This collection of essays honors Alexander Gordon McKay, one of the most respected names in Vergilian studies.

Wyckoff ) .Ĭategory: Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature. Fitzgerald ), ' Antigone ' ( translated by E. Grene ), “ Oedipus at Colonus ” ( translated by R. It is an inspiring study, filled with quotations from literary sources, which gives the reader a fascinating exposition of ancient culture as well as an understanding of how vital the classical world has been in shaping the western culture of today. Michael Grant re-tells these marvellous tales, and then explores the different ways in which they have appeared throughout literature. This is not a dictionary of stories, rather a personal selection of the most important and memorable.

This book discusses not only the purely fictional myths, fairy-tales and folk-tales but the sagas and legends which have some historical grounding. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives. Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literature The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Faber and Faber for Oedipus at Colonus and Euripides: Alcestis, Messrs. for Greek Plays in Modern Translation, D.

Antigone translated by elizabeth wyckoff