Resemblance and reality in Greek thought : essays in honor of Peter M. Smith / edited by Arum Park.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Peter M. (Associate Professor Emeritus), honouree.

Park, Arum, editor.

Series:

Routledge monographs in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"This volume of essays 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 the time of 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Paideia / By Sue Guiney

Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens / By Arum Park and Mary Pendergraft

Part One: Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality: Chapter 1: Metis 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138955226

1138955221

OCLC:

961151383