Christiane Reitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christiane Reitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christiane |
| FAMILY NAME | Reitz |
| SIGNATURE | REITZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rostock |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Structures of Epic Poetry
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Structures of Epic Poetry
Divine council scenes in ancient epic
Divine council scenes appear in most epic poems. They serve as a means to present the epic plot as based on divine intentions, and to promote the gods into actively influencing and participating in the action. Otherwise, the gods take part in the events one by one, for instance, by appearing on the battle field, or they perform the role of onlookers. The structural element of the divine council is much older than the Homeric Iliad, playing an imp…
Epic catalogues
The epic catalogue is one of the most striking features of ancient epic poetry. Why should a narrative include long lists of troops, as in our oldest example in Book 2 of the Iliad, of gifts, of places, of plants, and names of persons who are not important for the development of the plot? Research has long since shown that lists and catalogues are present in our tradition from the very beginning of writing, and probably even much earlier in oral …
Arming scenes, war preparation, and spoils in ancient epic
The arming of the epic hero before he goes into battle is one of the most famous narrative structures of classical epic. The act of arming sheds light on the following battle, and conveys information on the character of the fighting hero. The four prominent arming scenes of the Iliad (Paris in Book 3, Agamemnon in Book 11, Patroclus in Book 16, and Achilles in Book 19) are individualised and intertwined at the same time. While the individual elem…
Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster
Pausanias
Einer der berühmtesten Touristen der Kaiserzeit ist sicherlich P. Seine Dihe ́gesis, die Beschreibung Griechenlands in zehn Büchern, ist uns einigermaßen vollständig überliefert. Lange haben die Gelehrten, namentlich die Archäologen, aber auch andere Leser auf die Defizite seines Werkes hingewiesen. Uns heute noch Erhaltenes, auch bedeutende Kunstwerke, fehlen, dafür ist vieles sorgsam beschrieben, was uns unwichtig oder selbstverständlich ersche…
Columella, De Re Rustica
Within Neronian literature, two important texts survive from the wide field of instructional technical literature: the elder Pliny's encyclopaedia, Natural History, and Columella's work on agriculture (De Re Rustica). Columella draws on both traditions of agricultural writing, the poetical and the prosaic. The work contains prose and verse sections. Columella is certainly an innovator in his insertion of a didactic poem of some 400 verses into hi…
Describing the Invisible – Ovid’s Rome
Ovid’s poetic descriptions of Rome are not as vivid, as pictorial as one tends to suppose. In the poems from exile the lack of detail and the flat imagery seem to be programmatic. Thus, the reader’s attention is directed to the metapoetic message conveyed, by bringing into focus the role of enargeia/evidentia and the rivalry between literature and the visual arts. Evidence for this hypothesis is furnished by passages from the “Metamorphoses”, the…
Lucan's "Bellum Civile"
Lucan’s Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and confronts its readers with a new kind …
Lucan's Bellum Civile
Tradition und Erneuerung
Following the confusion that accompanied the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the Flavians succeeded in restoring stability to Rome. This volume of papers deals with the media strategies which were employed to help overcome a difficult initial situation and to master the crisis, thus establishing prosperous conditions in Rome and the Empire. 18 contributions from classical philology, archaeology and ancient history examine the new aesthetica…
Tradition und Erneuerung
Following the confusion that accompanied the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the Flavians succeeded in restoring stability to Rome. This volume of papers deals with the media strategies which were employed to help overcome a difficult initial situation and to master the crisis, thus establishing prosperous conditions in Rome and the Empire. 18 contributions from classical philology, archaeology and ancient history examine the new aesthetica…
Lucan's "Bellum Civile"
Lucan’s Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and confronts its readers with a new kind …
Lucan's Bellum Civile
Tradition und Erneuerung
Following the confusion that accompanied the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the Flavians succeeded in restoring stability to Rome. This volume of papers deals with the media strategies which were employed to help overcome a difficult initial situation and to master the crisis, thus establishing prosperous conditions in Rome and the Empire. 18 contributions from classical philology, archaeology and ancient history examine the new aesthetica…
Columella, De Re Rustica
Within Neronian literature, two important texts survive from the wide field of instructional technical literature: the elder Pliny's encyclopaedia, Natural History, and Columella's work on agriculture (De Re Rustica). Columella draws on both traditions of agricultural writing, the poetical and the prosaic. The work contains prose and verse sections. Columella is certainly an innovator in his insertion of a didactic poem of some 400 verses into hi…
Describing the Invisible – Ovid’s Rome
Ovid’s poetic descriptions of Rome are not as vivid, as pictorial as one tends to suppose. In the poems from exile the lack of detail and the flat imagery seem to be programmatic. Thus, the reader’s attention is directed to the metapoetic message conveyed, by bringing into focus the role of enargeia/evidentia and the rivalry between literature and the visual arts. Evidence for this hypothesis is furnished by passages from the “Metamorphoses”, the…
Pausanias
Einer der berühmtesten Touristen der Kaiserzeit ist sicherlich P. Seine Dihe ́gesis, die Beschreibung Griechenlands in zehn Büchern, ist uns einigermaßen vollständig überliefert. Lange haben die Gelehrten, namentlich die Archäologen, aber auch andere Leser auf die Defizite seines Werkes hingewiesen. Uns heute noch Erhaltenes, auch bedeutende Kunstwerke, fehlen, dafür ist vieles sorgsam beschrieben, was uns unwichtig oder selbstverständlich ersche…
Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster
Structures of Epic Poetry
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Structures of Epic Poetry
Divine council scenes in ancient epic
Divine council scenes appear in most epic poems. They serve as a means to present the epic plot as based on divine intentions, and to promote the gods into actively influencing and participating in the action. Otherwise, the gods take part in the events one by one, for instance, by appearing on the battle field, or they perform the role of onlookers. The structural element of the divine council is much older than the Homeric Iliad, playing an imp…
Epic catalogues
The epic catalogue is one of the most striking features of ancient epic poetry. Why should a narrative include long lists of troops, as in our oldest example in Book 2 of the Iliad, of gifts, of places, of plants, and names of persons who are not important for the development of the plot? Research has long since shown that lists and catalogues are present in our tradition from the very beginning of writing, and probably even much earlier in oral …
Arming scenes, war preparation, and spoils in ancient epic
The arming of the epic hero before he goes into battle is one of the most famous narrative structures of classical epic. The act of arming sheds light on the following battle, and conveys information on the character of the fighting hero. The four prominent arming scenes of the Iliad (Paris in Book 3, Agamemnon in Book 11, Patroclus in Book 16, and Achilles in Book 19) are individualised and intertwined at the same time. While the individual elem…
Art (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · EPIC (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)