Allusion, authority, and truth : critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis / edited by Phillip Mitsis, Christos Tsagalis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitsis, Phillip.

Tsagalis, Christos.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Allusions in literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and rhetorical genres. The result is a series of striking and original readings from different critical perspectives that display the centrality of these questions for understanding the poetic and rhetorical aims of ancient Greek texts. Characterized by a combination of close attention to philological detail and theoretical sophistication, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for this kind of focused, critically informed dialogue about the nature of ancient textual praxis. Students of classical literature will find a wealth of critical insights and challenging new readings of many familiar texts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

EPIC AND LYRIC

1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice

2. Remembering the Gastēr

3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429

4. Hector's Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492)

5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236)

6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16

7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic

8. The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere

9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text's Temporality

10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar's Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship

DRAMA

1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150

2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy

3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron

4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba

5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama

6. "A Song to Match my Song": Lyric Doubling in Euripides' Helen

7. Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes' Knights and Wasps

8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes' Frogs, 1482-1499)

9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration

PROSE

1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates

2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary?

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612911910

9781282911918

1282911910

9783110245400

311024540X

OCLC:

692197566