An Introduction (eBook)

An Introduction

Giulio Colesanti, Manuela Giordano (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
239 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-033408-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Illuminating the ways ancient Greek culture placed different texts at edge of transmission remains a desideratum. Intended as a new hermeneutics to study the whole range of texts that were produced for socially relevant events in ancient Greece and to investigate the dynamics behind their inclusion or exclusion from production, diffusion and transmission, this book offers fresh approaches to ancient Greek literature and cultural history.

Giulio Colesanti, Rome, Italy; Manuela Giordano, University of Calabria, Italy.

Inhalt

Introductory Notes 11
Defining the Indefinable: Greek Submerged Literature and Some Problems of Terminology 17
Submerged Literature in an Oral Culture 29
The Canon and Its Boundaries 43
Beyond the Canon: Hellenistic Scholars and Their Texts 56
Local Epics and Epic Cycles: the Anomalous Case of a Submerged Genre 86
Two Cases of Submerged Monodic Lyric: Sympotic Poetry and Lullabies 100
Dramatic Actions from Archaic Iconographic Sources: the Domain of the Satyrikon 117
Comedy outside the Canon: from Ritual Slapstick to Hellenistic Mime 138
Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy 161
By Way of Conclusion 188
Reference List 198
Index Nominum 219
Index Rerum Notabilium 227
Index Locorum 232
Contributors 237

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-11-033408-9 / 3110334089
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-033408-1 / 9783110334081