Eris vs. Aemulatio : valuing competition in classical antiquity / edited by Cynthia Damon, Christoph Pieper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damon, Cynthia, 1957- editor.

Pieper, Christoph, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 423.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Mnemosyne supplements, Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 423

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition--History--To 1500.

Competition.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Eris versus aemulatio

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Contents:

1. Introduction / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Part 1. Eris reimagined. 2. Hesiodic Eris and the market / Ruth Scodel

Part 2. Ambivalence, critique, resistance. 3. Agonistic excess and its ritual resolution in hero cult : the funeral games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme / Anton Bierl

4. Certare alterno carmine : the rise and fall of bucolic competition / Yelena Baraz

5. Stasis, competition, and the 'noble lie' : metic mettle in Plato's Republic / Geoffrey W. Bakewell

6. Competition and innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2 / Inger N.I. Kuin

7. Aristotle's Poetics and skênikoi agônes / Oliver Taplin

8. Paradoxes and anxieties of competition in Hippocratic medicine / Ralph M. Rosen

Part 3. Multivalence, displacement, innovation. 9. Sleights of hand : epigraphic capping and the visual enactment of Eris in early Greek epigrams / Deborah Steiner

10. Roman architects and the struggle for fame in an unequal society / Christopher Siwicki

11. Political competition and economic change in mid-republican Rome / Seth Bernard

12. Mihi es aemula : elite female status competition in mid-republican Rome and the example of Tertia Aemilia / Lewis Webb

13. The poetics of strife and competition in Hesiod and Ovid / Charles T. Ham

14. Demosthenes versus Cicero : intercultural competition in ancient literary criticism / Casper C. de Jonge

15. Competition and competitiveness in Pollux's Onomasticon / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Damon, Cynthia, 1957- author. Eris vs. Aemulatio

ISBN:

9789004383968

9004383964

OCLC:

1056202099