10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIGANTOMACHIES»
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gigantomachies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gigantomachies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real
Golub's Gigantomachies do not represent two distinctly differentiated battling
species whose conflict, though tumultuous, is always purposeful, a mythology
that in its historical realization becomes the Hegelian master/slave dialectic; they
...
2
Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins
Giant and dragon interchange as opponents of god or hero in folklore; in the
gigantomachies we have evidence of their near-identity.40 AHT/l Phorbas, as
described by Philostratos, had human form, but was boarlike in appearance (
oWiS^ to ...
Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, 1959
3
Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens
Vases with offering scenes, Dionysiac subjects, and Gigantomachies are also
placed after 440, as subjects typical of the Parthenonzeit, and, as with the
iconographical basis for the identification of early works, the emphasis on subject
matter ...
4
From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual
Writing about the “Gigantomachies” in 1967, Golub called them “a kind of
barbaric realism,” and said they “document the frenzy of today and so view
American power, violence, mass death, and destruction.”2 The “Gigantomachy”
paintings are ...
5
The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History, and Science Look ...
and explicitly (Pherekydes)—reveal that the Greek narratives speaking of battles
involving giants (gigantomachies), Titans (titanomachies), and gods (
theomachies), or combinations thereof, really reflected one real historical event.
In other ...
Siro Igino Trevisanato, 2005
I've never been able to envision a world without stress. I don't see a proleptic
vision by which our existence can be redeemed. The Gigantomachies are the
most irredeemable of all my work, the most difficult to finally acknowledge
because ...
7
A Commentary on Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica XII
185-6 Conceivably a faint echo of i 481, but we are more likely dealing with the
stock language of Gigantomachies: cf. Claud, cited above on 157-218; Nonn. 17.
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Malcolm Campbell (Ph. D.), 1981
8
A Companion to Ancient Epic
In the company of this epic are the remains of a pair of Gigantomachies, one in
Greek and one in Latin. The Greek version is an early piece, written before
Claudian left the East for Rome in the early 390s, and exists only in fragments;
the Latin ...
9
Philostratus's Heroikos: Religion And Cultural Identity In ...
23 The conflation of Lydia and Phrygia was common at least in the poets
according to Strabo Geography 14.665; an alternate name of the river Hyllos was
Phrygios (Strabo Geography 13.626). 24 Postclassical Gigantomachies (notably
the ...
Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, 2005
10
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The ...
There are constant references in Claudian, who was the author of two
Gigantomachies, to dark powers and anarchic forces threatening the order of
Jupiter.56 Corippus, who is concerned with the rebellion of barbarian tribes as
well, hints three ...
Willemien Otten, Karla Pollmann, 2007
