Allusion, Authority, and Truth : Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis.
Title:
Allusion, Authority, and Truth : Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis.
Author:
Mitsis, Phillip.
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9783110245400
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1 online resource (460 pages)
Series:
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v.7
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice -- 2. Remembering the Gastēr -- 3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 -- 4. Hector's Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) -- 5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) -- 6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 -- 7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic -- 8. The Meaning of homoios (ὁμοῖος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere -- 9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text's Temporality -- 10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar's Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship -- 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 -- 2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy -- 3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron -- 4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba -- 5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama -- 6. "A Song to Match my Song": Lyric Doubling in Euripides' Helen -- 7. Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes' Knights and Wasps -- 8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes' Frogs, 1482-1499) -- 9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration -- 1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates -- 2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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