10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAROEMIOGRAPHY»
Discover the use of
paroemiography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
paroemiography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Famous Firsts in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
(Pliny the Elder 35.98) The first paroemiographer Paroemiography — the
collecting of proverbs — began with Aristotle, in his book entitled Paroimiai. (
OCD s.v. paroemiography) The first performance of a tragic play at the Dionysian
Festival ...
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Burger, Harald; Dobrovol'skij, Dmitrij; Kühn, Peter; ...
The volume and variety of the material collected, as well as the precision of
treatment, make this work a monument of Spanish paroemiography. Some
entries are undefined, but most of them have very precise definitions, and quite a
few ...
Most of these appear to be original, and, until put forth by him, strange to
European paroemiography; though some are doubtless of European parentage,
some repeat the maxims of Scripture, and some again those of heathen sages of
...
4
Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History
When the Catholic Church banned Erasmus' works, the printer-publisher Paolo
Manuzio issued a, purged version of the Adages for Catholic use. '
Paroemiography', the art of collecting sayings cultivated by the sophists and
rhetoricians of late ...
5
Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Texts, ...
In fact no data allow us to assert that Chamaeleon attributed this saying to Chilon,
and the expression oiJperi ̈Aristotelh may well refer to other Peripatetics
interested in paroemiography. Koepke, p. 46: “Tria enim tantummodo fragmenta
libri ...
Andrea Martano, Elisabetta Matelli, David C. Mirhady, 2012
6
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
... epic: Mock-epic / Satire, satirical Paroemiography: 303 pars epica: 120; 167-
168 Parthenius of Nicaea: 68; 69 n.85; 75-76; 309-331; 333-334; 351 Anthippe:
149 n.3; 321 Aphrodite: 313; 318 Encomium ofArete: 318; 321-322 Epicedium ...
Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär, 2012
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
... inspired by Hellenistic models.12 Since many Greek proverbs are
incomprehensible without exact knowledge of the mythical figures and events to
which they allude, the provinces of mythography and paroemiography
occasionally overlap, ...
Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies Jan N Bremmer, Jan N. Bremmer, 2014
8
Apuleius: A Latin Sophist
More generally, paroemiography was both part of the Greek philosophical
tradition of which Apuleius presented himself as an heir (Aristotle and
Theophrastus wrote works on proverbs—Diogenes Laertius 5. 26, 5. 45), and
operative in the ...
9
Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and ...
(Two other popular genres, mythography and paroemiography, have been
excluded from this book but were clearly related to the scholarly genres
discussed here.) Modern interest currently focuses on the grammatical writings
much more ...
Eleanor Dickey Associate Professor of Classics Columbia University, 2007
10
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
48, 286 paroemiography, 78 Paris, 29, 65, 82 n. 54, 103, 127, 132—5, 135 n. 29,
140, 142, 145—55, 148 n.20,152 n.32,153 n.36,158 n. 55, 164—5, 235 n. 6, 290-
1, see also “Alexander” Parmenides, 10 Pausanias, author (and see Index ...
, Emily Baragwanath, Mathieu de Bakker, 2012
