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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade ordet classics.

  1. 1. Att anlita översättning : Chaucer, Dryden, Arnold, Pound

    Författare :Claes Wahlin; Anders Cullhed; Helena Bodin; Andrew Chesterman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; translation studies; canon; classics; medieval literature; restoration; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis – Translation employed – Chaucer, Dryden, Arnold, Pound – investigates the motives and circumstances of translations of four authors/translators: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dryden, Matthew Arnold and Ezra Pound. All four employ translation for purposes that exceed linguistically faithful transmission of a source text. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis

    Författare :Aske Damtoft Poulsen; Latin; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philology; Classics; Roman Literature; Classical Historiography; Tacitus; Intertextuality;

    Sammanfattning : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture

    Författare :Johan Vekselius; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Antikens Rom; Romersk historia; Romerska riket; Kejsare; Tårar; Sorg; Gråt; känslohistoria; känslostudier; känslodisciplinering; Känslor; Latinsk litteratur; Grekisk litteratur; Antiken; Dygder och Laster; Dygder; Retorik; Historieskrivning; Talekonst; CIcero; Seneca; Tacitus; Livius; Antikens Grekland; Klassisk grekiska; Den romerska republiken; Kejsartid; Latinsk historieskrivning; Grekisk historieskrivning; Antikens historia; Antikens kultur och samhällsiv; Begravningar; Rome; Ancient Rome; Late Republican Rome; late Republic; Historiography; history of emotions; Tears; Weeping; Mourning; Virtues; Virtus; Pity; Clementia; Pietas; Oratory; Rhetoric; Cicero; Tacitus; Livy; The Roman Empire; The Roman Emperor; Latin historiography; Greek historiography; Grief; Ancient History; Classics; Ancient Greece; Funerals;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Pindaric Scholarship between Aristarchus and Didymus : An Edition of the Fragments with Explanatory Notes and a Discussion of Early Pindaric Scholarship

    Författare :Pontus Österdahl; Denis Searby; Mark De Kreij; Pär Ola Sandin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pindar; Hellenistic literature; scholia; fragment; commentary; textual criticism; klassiska språk med inriktning mot antik grekiska; Classics with Specialisation in Ancient Greek;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore Hellenistic scholarship on Pindar in the period between Aristarchus and Didymus. Although no ancient scholarly work on Pindar survives in its entirety, the Pindar scholia and other indirect sources show that about a dozen scholars known by name worked on Pindar in the period studied. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    Författare :Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Sammanfattning : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. LÄS MER