Exemplum and myth, criticism and creation : papers on early Greek literature / J.G. Howie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howie, J. G. (J. Gordon)

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Collected classical papers ; 3.

Collected classical papers, 0951-7405 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

xvii, 443 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Francis Cairns, 2012.

Summary:

J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in early Greek epic and lyric, and reveal the impact of those patterns on Attic drama and on the Greek historians.

Contents:

I Myth, Aetiology, Hymn, and Prayer

1 Greek Polytheism 1

2 Apollo's Dealings with Chiron and Croesus: Ambiguity and Hymnic Predication in Hesiod's Theogony, Pindar's 9th Pythian, and Herodotus 1 21

3 The Alcestis of Euripides considered as an Aetiological Myth 49

II Homer

4 The Iliad as Exemplum 62

5 The Phaeacians in the Odyssey: Fable and Territorial Claim 90

III Sappho in the Light of Pindar and Menander Rhetor

6 Sappho Fr. 16 (LP): Self-Consolation and Encomium 102

7 Sappho Fr. 94 (LP): Farewell, Consolation, and Help in a New Life 126

IV Creative Myth-Revision: Pindar's Olympian 1

8 The Revision of Myth in Pindar Olympian 1: The Death and Revival of Pelops (25-27; 36-66) 161

9 Pindar's Account of Pelops' Contest with Oenomaus (with a translation of Olympian 1) 191

Illustrations 239

Appendix: Reconsideration of the Role of Female Helper or Inciter 255

V Thucydides (and Xenophon) and Earlier Poetry:

10 Thucydides and Pindar: The Archaeology and Nemean 7 265

11 The Aristeia of Brasidas: Thucydides' Presentation of Events at Pylos and Amphipolis 307

12 The Major Aristeia in Homer and Xenophon 369

Addendum to Chapter 9

13 The "Mighty Missiles" in Olympian 1.111-12 386.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-424) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780905205540

0905205545

OCLC:

760174383

Publisher Number:

99949317672