10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXAMETRIC»
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hexametric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into ...
Therefore, the text itself may be attributed to the oral performance of a Greek
aoidos 'professional bard' who sang hexametric verses at places where bardic
festivals were held and on the occasion of special festivities such as the skolion ...
2
A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present
After Homer, still within the archaic and classical period, there is a continuation of
hexametric poetry: (a) Firstly, there is Hesiod, who is placed in the same century (
eighth), a little after Homer (he is placed before the Odyssey by some) and who ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, 2005
3
History of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Hellenistic ...
There are other early examples of this dialectal enhancement of the hexametric
or even dactylic verse customarily associated with Homeric style, such as in a
processional poem by Sappho, or local epigrammatic poetry. Hellenistic poets ...
4
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
Alan Cameron compares Callimachus' parallel stories about Theseus' meeting
with Hecale in the hexametric Hecale and Heracles' meeting with Molorcus in the
elegiac Victory of Berenice in the Aetia on the lines of scholarship on Ovid ...
James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, 2010
5
The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the ...
Although it is generally agreed that stichometry was originally based on standard
epic lines, MacDowell and Kapparis are probably right, since Hellenistic and
Roman prose papyri very rarely agree with a hexametric line. Their lines are ...
6
Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (
2009) and published a monograph on book-conventions in rolls and codices
containing hexametric poetry (Book-ends, End-titles, Coronides in Papyri with ...
7
The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation
But even ifwe find that a hexametric line quoted in the papyrus is part of another
canonical hexametric poem, we still have to consider the possibility that, as loans
are not uncommon especially in hexametric poems, the same line is also part of ...
8
To mega biblion: book-ends, end-titles, and coronides in ...
A systematic and chronological investigation into the nature and development of end-titles in papyrus rolls and codices of hexameter poetry from the III century BC through the VI century AD. The bulk of the evidence for presentation of ...
9
The Classical Tradition
In the 10th-century epic Ecbasis captivi (Escape of a Captive), a beast epic in
which one-fifth of the verses are taken from Horace, the preponderance of his
hexametric poems is overwhelming (2.13 lines versus 20 from his lyrics). Writing
at ...
Anthony Grafton, Glenn W Most, Salvatore Settis, 2010
10
A grammar of the Arabic language
The fourth of the Muallakdt by Labld, and the sixth by 'Antarah, are composed in
the Hexametric form of this metre. Of the Metre Kliafif or the Nimble. Standard,
Fddilatun, Mustafdilun, Fddilatun, (twice). 382. This metre is of frequent
occurrence ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEXAMETRIC»
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hexametric is used in the context of the following news items.
While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads
These monomeric units represent only one of the forms that insulin proteins can take. The insulin that diabetics take is usually in a hexametric ... «ScienceBlogs, Dec 14»
“Hip-Hop Hexameter” Gives Virgil The Beat
Sweet sent out the hexametric beat. Then students imported it into GarageBand and mixed their own tracks on top of it. Some sped it up. Others ... «New Haven Independent, Nov 13»
Evidence from Homer
... in all probability was in use in Greece at the latest by the fifteenth century B.C., so that kernels of information transmitted via hexametric formulas from that time ... «Archaeology, Aug 04»
