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Author | : Erwin F. Cook |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501723502 |
A study in poetic interaction, The Odyssey in Athens explores the ways in which narrative structure and parallels within and between epic poems create or disclose meaning. Erwin F. Cook also broadens the scope of this intertextual approach to include the relationship of Homeric epic to ritual. Specifically he argues that the Odyssey achieved its form as a written text within the context of Athenian civic cults during the reign of Peisistratos. Focusing on the prologue and the Apologoi (Books 9–12), Cook shows how the traditional Greek polarity between force and intelligence informs the Odyssean narrative at all levels of composition. He then uses this polarity to explain instances of Odyssean self-reference, allusions to other epic traditions—in particular the Iliad—and interaction between the poem and its performance context in Athenian civic ritual. This detailed structural analysis, with its insights into the circumstances and meaning of the Odyssey's composition, will lead to a new understanding of the Homeric epics and the tradition they evoked.
Author | : Silvia Montiglio |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472117742 |
Odysseus as a model of wisdom in Greek and Roman philosophy
Author | : Matthew R. Christ |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1998-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801858635 |
The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos), Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In particular, they were aware that unscrupulous individuals might manipulate the laws and the legal process to serve their own purposes. Indeed, throughout the Classical Period, when Athenians gathered in public and private settings, they regularly discussed, debated, and complained about legal chicanery, or sukophantia. In The Litigious Athenian, Matthew Christ explores what this ancient discussion reveals about how Athenians conceived of and responded to problematic aspects of their collective legal experience. The transfer of significant judicial power from the elite Areopagus Council to the popular courts was a crucial step in the establishment of Athenian democracy, Christ notes, and Athenians took great pride in their legal system. They chose not to make significant changes to their legal institutions even though they could have done so at any time through a majority vote of the Assembly. Determining that the term sykophant was applied rhetorically rather than, as some have believed, to describe a specific subclass, Christ shows how the public debates over legal chicanery helped define the limits of ethical behavior under the law and in public life.
Author | : Roy van Wijk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2024-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009340581 |
Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was distinctive and complex. Moving between diplomatic normative behaviour, commemorative practice and the lived experience in the borderlands, he offers a close analysis of literary sources, combined with recent archaeological and epigraphic material, to reveal an aspect to neighbourly relations that has hitherto escaped attention. He argues that case studies such as the Mazi plain and Oropos show that territorial disputes were not a mainstay in diplomatic interactions and that commemorative practices in Panhellenic and local sanctuaries do not reflect an innate desire to castigate the neighbour. The book breaks new ground by reconstructing a more positive and polyvalent appreciation of neighbourly relations based on the local lived experience. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Nigel Wilson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113678800X |
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author | : Kelli C. Rudolph |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317515404 |
Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies.
Author | : William Merle Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9780893530259 |
Author | : David Sacks |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438110200 |
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Author | : David Braund |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107170591 |
Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961716 |
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.