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Ancient Greek lists : catalogue and inventory across genres / Athena Kirk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirk, Athena, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cataloging--Greece--Sources.
- Cataloging.
- Classical literature--Catalogs.
- Classical literature.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108887397
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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