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Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome and the Hellenistic world
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ISBN: 9780198723684 0198723687 9780191035647 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The 'Alexandra' attributed to Lykophron is a notoriously difficult poem but one that sheds crucial light on Greek religion, foundation myths, and myths of colonial identity. This book asserts its importance as a strongly political and historical document, and argues that the probable decade of its composition was a turning-point in Roman history.


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Cassandra and the poetics of prophecy in Greek and Latin literature
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ISBN: 9781108473934 1108473938 9781108462990 1108462995 9781108564007 1108607632 1108564003 1108623336 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic interactions that take place between the articulation and the realization of Cassandra's prophecies in five canonical ancient texts, stretching from Aeschylus' to Seneca's Agamemnon. These interactions are dogged by confusion and misunderstanding, but they also show a range of interested parties engaged in creatively 'translating' meaning for themselves from Cassandra's ostensibly nonsensical voice. Moreover, as the figure of Cassandra is translated from one literary work into another, including into the Sibyl of Virgil's Aeneid, her story of tragic communicative disability develops into an optimistic metaphor for literary canon-formation. Cassandra invites us to reconsider the status and value of even the most riddling of female prophets in ancient poetry.

The Cassandra Complex: Living with Disbelief
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ISBN: 0585081808 9780585081809 091912335X 9780919123359 Year: 1988 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Inner City Books

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