Innovations of Antiquity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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A collection of essays representing the cutting edge of critical thinking in Greek and Roman literature in America today.

Preface: More Difficult Reading Editors Part I. Literariness Introduction 1. Lollianos and the Desperadoes John J. Winkler 2. Simonides Painter Anne Carson Part II. Figures Introduction 3. Augustine's Region of Unlikeness: the Crossing of Exile and Language Margaret Ferguson 4. Narrative in Plato's Symposium David Halperin Part III. Variance Introduction 5. Anodos Drama: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen Helene Foley 6. The First Roman Marriage and the Theft of the Sabine Women Gary Miles Part IV. Gender Introduction 7. The Politics of Eros Froma Zeitlin 8. Architecture Gender Philosophy Ann Bergren Part V. Absence Introduction 9. Mythological Exemplum in Homer Gregory Nagy 10. Sidonian Dido Ralph Hexter Part VI. Context Introduction 11. The Rhetoric of Dismemberment in Neronian Poetry Glenn Most 12. Signs, Magic and Letters in Euripides' Hippolytus Charles Segal Part VII. Persuasion Introduction 13. Ceveat lector: Catullus and the Rhetoric of Performance 14. Human Sacrifice in the Oresteia Pietro Pucci Part VIII. Traditions Introduction 15. A Look at Theocritus Idyll 7 through Virgil's Eyes 16. The Apocalypse of Islam Norman O. Brown Notes on Contributors.