The values of nighttime in classical antiquity : between dusk and dawn / edited by James Ker, Antje Wessels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ker, James, editor.

Wessels, Antje, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 434.

Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 434

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Classical literature.

Night in literature--Congresses.

Night in literature.

Light and darkness in literature--Congresses.

Light and darkness in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Summary:

"In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a focus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, with topics ranging from Night in Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values-in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or not"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Who or what is the night? Night as measure, mother, and metaphor in the Hesiodic cosmos / Adrienne Atkins

First-born of night or oozing from the slime?: deviant origins in Orphic cosmogonies / Radcliffe G. EdmondsIII

Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy. Night as diagnostic: marker in Hippocratic medicine / Ralph M. Rosen

Nights of insight: Plato on the philosophical qualities of the night / Albert Joosse

Night's fictions: the religious institutions of Numain Lucilius fr .484-489 (Marx) / Cynthia Damon

The astronomer-poet at night: the evolution of a motif / Kathryn Wilson

Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night. A night attack in the Seven against Thebes / Isabella Reinhardt

Tragedy of darkness: the role of night in Euripides' Rhesus / Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten

The witching hour: wakeful women at work in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus / Amelia Bensch-Schaus

Noxreipublicae?: Catiline's and Cicero's nocturnal activities in the Catilinarians / Christoph Pieper

Inn-dependent : spending the night in a hostel in the Roman world / Jane Sancinito

Experiencing by Night. Better safe than sorry: nocturnal divinatory signs from a first-century BCE Roman perspective / Kim Beerden

Through the eyes of the night: Ecphrasis of nocturnal ambush scenes in Roman epic and historiography / Selina Weissmantel

Nocturnal negotiations: experiencing the night scenes from the Iliad at the house of Octavius Quartio, PompeiiII 2.2 / Barbara Kellum

Persius' nocturnal inspiration in the light of day / Jennifer Ferriss-Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

Other Format:

Online version: Values of nighttime in classical antiquity

ISBN:

9789004435575

9004435573

OCLC:

1154881672