Arktouros (eBook)

Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Glen W. Bowersock, Walter Burkert, Michael Putnam (Herausgeber)

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1979 | 1., Reprint 2011
472 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-083762-9 (ISBN)

Inhalt

I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Originality and Intentionality -- “A Thousand Shapes of Death”: Heroic Immortality in the Iliad -- Is Hector androphonos? -- Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod -- Sappho’s Circumstances -- Sappho and Acheron -- Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- Pindar’s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations -- ??? ???????: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 -- Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 -- Drama -- O suitably – attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy -- Attossa’s Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus -- A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus’ Source -- Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus’ Choephori -- Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles’ Ajax -- On the ‘Eye’ and the ‘Phallos’ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context -- A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes -- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides’ Hippolytus -- Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The ‘Demeter Ode’ in Euripides’ Helen -- Iphigeneia in Love -- Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae -- “Let Them Eat Cakes” – Three Food Notes to Aristophanes’ Peace -- Boy Actors in New Comedy -- Optatives of Consent and Refusal -- Society and History -- Hero Cult in the ‘Age of Homer’ and Earlier -- The Athenian Law against Hybris -- Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher -- Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I -- Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2.65.12 -- The Arche of Thucydides’ War -- Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis -- Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates -- Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas -- A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia -- Philosophy -- “Nothing” as “Not-Being”: Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato -- Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras’ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution -- Justice and Temperance in Republic IV -- Socrates’ Prayer to Pan -- The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato’s Seventh Letter -- How Credible are Plato’s Myths? -- Theophrastus on Fate and Character -- History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch’s Lycurgus -- Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D -- Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle? -- Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia -- Aftermath -- Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace’s Satires -- Horaz II 13 -- Seneca’s Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization -- Kaltblütiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jüngeren Plinius -- A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi -- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians -- Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478–1978) -- Plates -- List of Plates -- 470-472

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Frontispiece. 7 plates
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Griechenland • Griechische Literatur • Hellenismus • Literaturgeschichte / Griechenland • Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-083762-5 / 3110837625
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-083762-9 / 9783110837629