Old age in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Thomas M. Falkner & Judith de Luce
1989, First Edition. Albany : State University of New York Press. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #395583
ISBN: 0791400301
Physical description; xv, 260 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes; bibliographical references (pages 230-251) and index. Contents; The elderly in classical antiquity / M.I. Finley -- 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. Hubbard -- 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 an idiographic study of creativity and old age / Judith de Luce -- Afterword: when fields collide or a view from Gerontology / Mildred M. Seltzer. Subjects; Ancient. Classical literature History and criticism. Old age in literature. Old age Greece. Old age Rome. Age in literature.
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