Patterns of the past : epitēdeumata in the Greek tradition / edited by Alfonso Moreno and Rosalind Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moreno, Alfonso, 1972- editor.

Thomas, Rosalind, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--Greece--History--To 1500.

Rites and ceremonies.

Historiography--Greece--History--To 1500.

Historiography.

History.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

vi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Classical Greek consistently uses epitedeumata to signify 'way of life' or even 'everyday habits', but always refers to practices that are deliberately pursued, not traditions and customs that are passively carried on. In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitedeumata in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. In doing so, the contributors ask what kinds of attitudes the ancient Greeks had towards their past, and what behaviour such attitudes provoked. Each of the original contributions to this collection focuses on different kinds of epitedeumata as act patterns in the Greek world, incorporating religion and myth, political behaviour, sexuality, and historiography. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Rosalind Thomas and Alfonso Moreno

The Trojan Horse: between Athena and Artemis / Bruno d'Agostino

Rediscovering Sacadas / Ewen Bowie

The early Greek trophy: the iconographic tradition of time and space / Franc̦ois Lissarrague

The cunning tyrant: the cultural logic of a narrative pattern / Nino Luraghi

Political traditions in democratic Athens / Pauline Schmitt Pantel

Past it at thirty: legs and running in ancient Greek culture / James Davidson

The Greek Polis and the tradition of Polis history: local history, chronicles and the patterning of the past / Rosalind Thomas

Seeing double in Seleucid Babylonia: rereading the Borsippa cylinder of Antiochus I / Paul Kosmin

Theopompus and the tradition of Greek paideutic history / Alfonso Moreno

Agariste's suitors: an Olympic note / Simon Hornblower

Epilogue: The pleasure of intellectual friendship / Oswyn Murray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199668885

0199668884

OCLC:

897502753