Gallic war songs (II): Marcus Cicero, Quintus Cicero, and Caesar’s invasion of Britain

This article assembles and examines the evidence for the poetic outputs of Marcus and Quintus Cicero related to Caesar’s invasion of Britain. Following the establishment of a relative chronology of the evidence for their work, it is argued that Quintus Cicero most likely produced a fabula praetexta (not an epic poem, as commonly assumed). His brother, in turn, wrote an epic, based on Quintus’ eye-witness reports. Careful analysis of the ancient discourse about this piece reveals insights in Cicero’s poetic workshop and the creation of ‘archival truth’ through narrativising historical events in epic poetry. Finally, a case is made for greater attention to financial affairs between Caesar and the Ciceros that happen to coincide with the drafting process of their respective literary works.

O aspecto polifônico d os Lusíadas

A study about the polyphonic aspect of The Lusiads. An epic poem in Portuguese Language written by Luís de Camões, that narrates the adventure of the journey of Vasco da Gama in the discoverer of new shipping lanes for the Índias. Secondarily, tells the historics battles engaged during the process of foundation and consolidation of the Portuguese Empire. The object of the study are the diverse speeches that compose the poem s narration, aiming at to the possible aesthetic relation of the epic poetry of Camões with the novelistic prose developed in the modernity, starting with D. Quijote and consacrating it at polyphonic novels written by Dostoiévski. The sdudy focuses the singularity of Camões lies in the elaboration of a narrative structurally epic, but at the same time contains several deviating speeches. Such speeches emphasize the multiple planes and multiple voices (characteristics of novelistic prose) without, however, prejudice the interlinking logical-formal epos, resulting in the monological finish conventional of the epic gender. This feature characterizes The Lusiads as monological literary work, but also shows dialogism and plurilinguism, essentials to the polyphonic phenomenon. Another prominent aspect of the poetry of Camões is the relative procedure to the expressiveness of the characters. They are, in the majority, rhetorical creations, which assume, in the speech, human or myhtological characteristics. Stratagem that permits to the poet to emit a multiple faces of vision of the facts told. The analysis of the speeches supports-itself entirely in the polyphonic theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, shall be cited, accessory, viewpoints of others theoretical, as long if it is judged compatible with the theory adopted

A construção narrativa em Cidade de Deus de Paulo Lins

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A Odisséia de Nikos Kazantzakis: epopéia moderna do heroísmo trágico

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Do dramático ao épico: a presença da tragédia na Argonáutica de Apolônio de Rodes

O presente trabalho discute a relação entre o poema épico Argonáutica, de Apolônio de Rodes, e as tragédias gregas precedentes a ele. Considera-se que as tragédias, ao lado da poesia homérica, são importantes fontes para sua abordagem do mito e, subsequentemente, para a narrativa de Apolônio. Além disso, a narrativa e os recursos expressivos que o poeta utiliza são muito próximos às tragédias de Eurípides (1939) e Ésquilo, e essa relação nos ajuda a compreender melhor como um poeta alexandrino trabalha a matéria épica após o advento da tragédia clássica.

O canto dos helenos: poesia e performance

This study presents a brief reflection on the genesis of literary genres in Ancient Greece. It is intended here, in the first place, take us off this "comfort zone" when we talk about "Greek literature" in antiquity, at least from the period of Homer until the fifth century. B.C. , moment when, in fact, the writing has become stable not only in the continent but spreads out reaching the Italian peninsula and generating what we have today as the Roman alphabet. Therefore, we examine some terms that appear to be so clear for us which termed other doings, such as poetry, poem, among others. We also examine issues concerning the epic, lyrical and dramatic poetry.

A poesia épica na construção dos Discursos de Dion Crisóstomo

Epic poetry in the construction of Dion Chrysostom’s Discourses. The construction of images in the speeches of Dion Chrysostom was drawn from references in Homer. When the orator uses images from Greek epic poetry, Dion Chrysostom intimates the representation of images found in the literature to propagate his philosophical and political ideas during the first century A.D. under the administration of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Current analysis of the author’s works discusses literature as one of the representational forms of Hellenistic identity under Roman domination.

Memoria del reino perdido, en Diego Abad (1727-1779)

Este artículo analiza el Poema Heroico de Abad desde el tópico del destierro. En efecto, su autor pertenece al grupo de jesuitas expulsados de América en 1767 y si bien esta obra no habla de la expulsión en particular, sin embargo el recuerdo doloroso de México será una de los motivos fundamentales de la elección del género épico. La obra muestra, además, la pervivencia de este género en el siglo XVIII y la trascendencia de la literatura jesuita en la cultura de Hispanoamérica.

La mise en voix del Cantar del Mio Cid y el Códice de Vivar

En los últimos años, en el estudio de la mise en voix del Cantar de Mio Cid se ha privilegiado el plano musical de la interpretación. Sin descuidar esta dimensión, propongo volver sobre el plano textual y codicológico, ante la pobre evidencia preservada sobre aspectos rigurosamente musicales: las condiciones de su conservación en un códice de interés historiográfico, el conocimiento indirecto de la interpretación musical de la épica medieval, lagunas en el conocimiento de las técnicas de cantilación medieval clericales o laicas, la influencia que pudieron tener (o no) variantes locales como el canto mozárabe o el canto eugeniano, etc.

La mise en voix del Cantar del Mio Cid y el Códice de Vivar

En los últimos años, en el estudio de la mise en voix del Cantar de Mio Cid se ha privilegiado el plano musical de la interpretación. Sin descuidar esta dimensión, propongo volver sobre el plano textual y codicológico, ante la pobre evidencia preservada sobre aspectos rigurosamente musicales: las condiciones de su conservación en un códice de interés historiográfico, el conocimiento indirecto de la interpretación musical de la épica medieval, lagunas en el conocimiento de las técnicas de cantilación medieval clericales o laicas, la influencia que pudieron tener (o no) variantes locales como el canto mozárabe o el canto eugeniano, etc.

La mise en voix del Cantar del Mio Cid y el Códice de Vivar

En los últimos años, en el estudio de la mise en voix del Cantar de Mio Cid se ha privilegiado el plano musical de la interpretación. Sin descuidar esta dimensión, propongo volver sobre el plano textual y codicológico, ante la pobre evidencia preservada sobre aspectos rigurosamente musicales: las condiciones de su conservación en un códice de interés historiográfico, el conocimiento indirecto de la interpretación musical de la épica medieval, lagunas en el conocimiento de las técnicas de cantilación medieval clericales o laicas, la influencia que pudieron tener (o no) variantes locales como el canto mozárabe o el canto eugeniano, etc.

Kitāb-i Bahāristān-i marḥūm Mullā Jāmī : manuscript, 1640

Title from caption.

Gulistān : manuscript, 1727?

Written in one column (in black and red ink) and two columns (in red ink), 29 lines per page.

Shāhnāmah : manuscript, 1718-1721

Written in a professional taʻlīq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 20 lines per page in 4 gold-ruled columns. Contains 115 miniatures portraying various scenes from the poem.

Homeri Odyssea /

Includes index(v.2, parts 1 pp.392-471).