Mock Epic in the Greek Anthology

Sistakou Evina. Mock Epic in the Greek Anthology. In: Homère revisité. Parodie et humour dans les réécritures homériques. Actes du colloque international, Aix-en-Provence 30-31 octobre 2008. Besançon : Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2011. pp. 193-210. (Collection « ISTA », 1200

Mock Epic in the Greek Anthology

Sistakou Evina. Mock Epic in the Greek Anthology. In: Homère revisité. Parodie et humour dans les réécritures homériques. Actes du colloque international, Aix-en-Provence 30-31 octobre 2008. Besançon : Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2011. pp. 193-210. (Collection « ISTA », 1200

The Dynamics of Space in Moschus’ Europa

Moschus’ Europa is set in a paradisiac landscape where the erotic encounter between a young maiden and a god disguised as a bull is perfectly possible. Three symbolic spaces, the chamber, the meadow and the sea are the foil to the story of Europa’s affair with Zeus, thus providing the key to the interpretation of the entire poem. The aim of the paper is to explore how space in combination with time, what we might call the poem’s chronotope, is consistent with its generic quality, to discuss the spatial organization of the narrative and then give a detailed analysis of the poem’s spaces and to associate space with the actual plot by focusing on the dramatic potential stemming from the spatial structuring of Moschus’ Europa

The dark side of Euphorion

Le fantastique, le morbide, l’horrible et l’étrange constituent autant de notions connexes qui ont eu un rôle formateur dans le développement de mouvements contemporains, surtout le romantisme et le décadentisme, mais qui peuvent aussi s’avérer utiles pour décrire plusieurs tendances de l’esthétique hellénistique. Euphorion est attiré par les sujets morbides et confère volontiers au discours une intensité émotionnelle marquée : aussi peut-on être tenté de le qualifier de « poète noir ». La présente contribution examine les testimonia et les fragments d’Euphorion en les situant dans le cadre de ce projet esthétique particulier

Συμφραστικός πίνακας λέξεων στο ποιητικό έργο του Γιώργου Σεφέρη [Concordance to the poems of Georgios Seferis]

Concordance of the poetic works of Giorgos Seferis which presents all the principal “words” of the texts in an alphabetical list, stating how often each word occurs, giving a precise location and a relevant piece of text for each occurrence. We found ca. 9500 different Greek words in 39000 different occurrences, so our concordance has 50.000 lines of text. The technical procedure required four main steps: text entry and tagging, production of the concordance, correction of the contexts, formatting for print

The programmatic Idylls of Theocritus

Scholars have consistently focused on Idylls 1 and 7 as ‘programmatic’ poems. Cairns, in his discussion of the first Idyll as a programmatic poem, helpfully defines such poetry as follows: A poem or part of a poem can be described as ‘programmatic’ if it is consciously composed in such a way that it contains a very high concentration of material typical of its literary form. Such a piece can be regarded as even more obviously programmatic if it contains statements about poetry and the art of writing poetry, either implicit or explicit. Such statements can sometimes involve evaluations of poetry or of several different kinds of poetry. Pieces which are ‘programmatic’ in one or more of these senses can sometimes use an agreed symbolic language. This chapter analyzes Idylls 1 and 7 from a comparable angle

Recherches sur l’epyllion à l’époque hellénistique et au-delà

Ce volume de la revue Aitia est constitué de la réunion de deux rencontres organisées à l’ENS de Lyon en septembre 2012 et à l’Université Roma Tre en mai 2013 sur l'epyllion et plus particulièrement sur les rapports entre l'epyllion et le mythe. Il est constitué de 16 contributions sur cette forme poétique problématique qu’est l’epyllion, auquel s’ajoute une contribution marginale et deux comptes rendus. This volume of the on-line journal Aitia consists of the proceedings of two meetings held at ENS of Lyon in September 2012 and at the Roma Tre University in May 2013 on the Epyllion and more specifically on the relationship between Epyllion and myth. It consists of 16 contributions on this problematic poetic form of the Epyllion, plus a marginal contribution and two reviews. Questo volume della rivista Aitia consiste nell'unione di due incontri presso ENS de Lyon (settembre 2012) e l'Università Roma Tre (maggio 2013) sull' epillio e in particolare sul rapporto tra epillio e mito. Si compone di 16 contributi su questa forma poetica che è l'epillio, oltre a un contributo marginale e due relazioni