Allusion, Authority, and Truth (eBook)

Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis

Phillip Mitsis, Christos Tsagalis (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2010
468 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-024540-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The past few decades have seen the development of new critical methods with which the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of ancient Greek texts can be evaluated. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars comes together to examine how a wide range of ancient texts in different genres were able to assert their authority and claims to truth, often alluding to one another in subtle ways as they attempted to project their own superiority. A series of illuminating new readings is offered of both particular passages and whole works in the light of these new critical advances.

Phillip Mitsis, New York University, USA, and Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Autor

lt;!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">

Phillip Mitsis, New York University, USA, and Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Table of Contents 8
Introduction 10
EPIC AND LYRIC 20
1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice 22
2. Remembering the Gaster 46
3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 60
4. Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) 86
5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) 96
6.Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 124
7.Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic 138
8. The Meaning of homoios (µ...) in Theogony 27and Elsewhere 162
9.Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality 178
10.Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship 196
DRAMA 210
1.Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 212
2.Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy 228
3.Echoes from Mount Cithaeron 244
4.Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba 258
5.The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama 272
6.“A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen 292
7.Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes’ Knights and Wasps 312
8.Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes’ Frogs, 1482-1499) 348
9.Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration 368
PROSE 384
1.Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates 386
2.Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? 410
Bibliography 422
List of Contributors 454
Publications by Pietro Pucci 460
General Index 466

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2010
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Drama • EPIC • Epos • Greek Literature • Griechische Literatur • Interpretation • Prosa • Prose
• ISBN-10: 3-11-024540-X / 311024540X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-024540-0 / 9783110245400