Old age in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Thomas M. Falkner and Judith de Luce.
Material type:
TextSeries: SUNY series in classical studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1989.Description: xv, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0791400301
- 079140031X
- 880.09
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CYA Library Main Collection | 880.09 OLD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000011492 |
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 230-251.
Introduction: the elderly in classical antiquity/ M.I. Finley -- Επὶ γήραος οὐδῷ: Homeric heroism, old age and the end of the Odyssey/ Thomas M. Falkner -- Tithonos and the tettix/ Helen King -- Old men in the youthful plays of Aristophanes/ Thomas K. Falkner -- The wrath of Alcmene: gender, authority and old age in Euripides' Children of Heracles/ Thomas M. Falkner -- "Do not go gently..." Oedipus at Colonus and the psychology of aging/ Thomas Van Nortwick -- The ashes and the flame: passion and aging in classical poetry/ Stephen Bertman -- Horace's old girls: evolution of a topos/ Carol Clemeau Esler -- The old man in the garden: Georgic 4.116-148/ Jenny Strauss Clay -- Ovid as idiographic study of creativity and old age/ Judith de Luce -- Afterword: when fields collide or a view from gerontology/ MIldred M. Seltzer -- Bibliography: old age in Greco-Roman antiquity and early Christianity: an annotated select bibliography/ Emiel Eyben.