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Poetry as Initiation
The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
Av Ioanna Papadopoulou, Leonard Muellner
Häftad, 2014
532 kr
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The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 …
Cypria
Häftad, 2019
204 kr
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The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot and contents.Malcolm Davies uses linguistic evidence …
Aethiopis
Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed
Häftad, 2016
489 kr
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It may seem odd to devote an entire book, however short, to a lost epic of which hardly any fragments (as normally defined) survive. The existence of a late prose summary of the epic’s contents hardly dispels that oddness. One (rather long) word may supply justification: Neoanalysis.This once …
Epic Cycle Concludes
The Sack of Troy and the Nostoi of the Heroes
Häftad, 2027
277 kr
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The Epic Cycle Concludes deals with the two separate epics that related the sack of Troy and with the two that recounted the returns home of the victorious Greek heroes and the further adventures and death of the most famous of those surviving heroes, Odysseus (the Nostoi and the Telegony, …
Life and Miracles of Thekla
A Literary Study
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the …
Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music
The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
Av Gregory Nagy
Häftad, 2002
175 kr
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The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey by professional reciters or "rhapsodes." The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about …
Labored in Papyrus Leaves
Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)
Av Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
254 kr
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This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, …
Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia
Histories, Ideologies, Structures
Häftad, 2004
271 kr
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The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be …
Priene
Second Edition
Av Nikos A. Dontas, Kleopatra Ferla
Inbunden, 2006
447 kr
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The Ionian city of Priene, the most extensively excavated Hellenistic city in western Asia Minor, was in its day a model of town planning. It was sited according to principles corresponding to Aristotle's description in the Politics of the ideal city of 5,000, laid out on a grid of the type …
Black Doves Speak
Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians
Häftad, 2005
155 kr
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In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview. …
Amphoteroglossia
A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel
Häftad, 2006
302 kr
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This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception …
Greek Ritual Poetics
Av Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Panagiotis Roilos
Häftad, 2005
400 kr
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Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an …
Victim of the Muses
Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
Häftad, 2006
302 kr
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This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos—the wretched human scapegoat who is expelled from the city or killed in response to a crisis—after satirizing the Delphians. In much the …
Homeric Conversation
Av Deborah Beck
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recognized types such as arrival, sacrifice, battle, and hospitality. Drawing on both linguistics and …
Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece
Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space
Häftad, 2009
183 kr
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Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in …
Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece
Häftad, 2009
165 kr
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Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Historians and ethnologists can pool a wealth of knowledge about different cultures across space and time. …
Culture of Kitharoidia
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodes enjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at festival competitions and concerts throughout …
Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
Häftad, 2009
194 kr
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Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the …
Weaving Truth
Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought
Av Ann Bergren
Häftad, 2008
204 kr
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"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form—the one Freud believed was even invented by women—weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, …
Ritual and Performativity
The Chorus in Old Comedy
Av Anton Bierl
Häftad, 2007
381 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of …
Epic City
Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome
Häftad, 2007
174 kr
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As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or …
Plato’s Symposium
Issues in Interpretation and Reception
Av James H. Lesher, Debra Nails m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
263 kr
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In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets …
Paradise Earned
The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete
Häftad, 2007
409 kr
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This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and …
King of Sacrifice
Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad
Av Sarah Hitch
Häftad, 2009
184 kr
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Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. What is the significance of these scenes within the framework of the Iliad? This book explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as …
Concordia Discors
Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature
Häftad, 2008
194 kr
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Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of …
Sappho in the Making
The Early Reception
Häftad, 2008
204 kr
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This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis …
Oral Palimpsest
Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics
Häftad, 2008
284 kr
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Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story. The Oral Palimpsest argues that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous …
Practitioners of the Divine
Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus
Av Beate Dignas, Kai Trampedach
Häftad, 2008
177 kr
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“What is a Greek priest?” The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal …
Zeus in the Odyssey
Av J. Marks
Häftad, 2008
175 kr
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This book makes the case that the plot of the Odyssey is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boulē, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. Through occasional participation in events and pervasive influence, the character of Zeus …
Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League
Häftad, 2009
556 kr
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The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire, or interpreted as a result of the unexpected annihilation of the Spartan army by the Boeotians at Leuktra. The present book …
