Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith
Redaktion: Park, Arum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship between verbal art and the social, historical, or cultural reality that produces it, an awareness that this relationship is an approximate one at best and a distorting one at worst. This central theme of resemblance and its relationship to reality draws together essays on a range of Greek authors, and shows how they are unified or allied in posing similar questions to classical literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317355335
• Artikelnr.: 46892285

Autorenporträt

Arum Park is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, but she has published on a wide range of authors, including Hesiod, Pindar, Ovid, and Longus. Her current book project, supported by a 2012-13 fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies, treats the concepts of truth, gender, and genre in Pindar and Aeschylus.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Paideia
By Sue Guiney
Contributors
Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens
By Arum Park and Mary Pendergraft
Part One
Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality
Chapter 1: M¿tis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of
Cunning in Odyssey 9
By Peter Aicher
Chapter 2: Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus' Scar and Eurycleia's Memory
By Jeffrey Beneker
Chapter 3: Failure of the Textual Relation: Anacreon's Purple Ball Poem (
PMG 358)
By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Chapter 4: Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and
Pindar.
By Arum Park
Chapter 5: Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus'
Hymn to Zeus
By Keyne Cheshire
Part Two
Greek Tragedy: Reality, Expectation, Tradition
Chapter 6: Necessity and Universal Reality: The Use of XPH in Aeschylus
By David C.A. Wiltshire
Chapter 7: The Arms of Achilles: Tradition and Mythmaking in Sophocles'
Philoctetes
By Sheila Murnaghan
Chapter 8: The Bad Place: The Horrific House of Euripides' Heracles
By Derek Smith Keyser
Chapter 9: The "Hymn to Zeus" (Agamemnon 160-83) and Reasoning from
Resemblances
By Edwin Carawan
Part Three
Greek Prose: Reality and Appearances
Chapter 10: Stereotypes as Faulty Resemblance: Humorous Deception and
Ethnography in Herodotus
By Mark C. Mash
Chapter 11: The Rational Religion of Xenophon's Socrates
By David Johnson
Chapter 12: Wives, Subjects, Sons, and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance in
Xenophon's Cyropaedia
By Norman Sandridge
Chapter 13: Performing Plato's Forms
By Patrick Lee Miller
Epilogue
Echoes of Resemblance and Reality in Latin Literature
Chapter 14: Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary
Metaphor
By D. Felton
Index