Reception in the Greco-Roman world : literary studies in theory and practice / edited by Marco Fantuzzi, Roehampton University, London, Helen Morales, University of California, Santa Barbara, Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fantuzzi, Marco, editor.

Whitmarsh, Tim, editor.

Morales, Helen, editor.

Series:

Cambridge classical studies.

Cambridge classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Greek influence.

Classical literature.

Reader-response criticism.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 456 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural contexts, on materiality, on intermediality and on the body. Essays range chronologically from the archaic to the Byzantine periods and address literature (prose and verse; Greek, Roman and Greco-Jewish), philosophy, papyri, inscriptions and dance. Whereas the conventional image of ancient Greek classicism is one of quiet reverence, this book, by contrast, demonstrates how rumbustious, heterogeneous and combative it could be.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Altered States: Cultural Pluralism and Psychosis in Ancient Literary Receptions

Part I Archaic and Classical Poetics

Chapter 1 Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar

Chapter 2 Stesichorus and the Name Game

Chapter 3 From Epinician Praise to the Poetry of Encomium on Stone:CEG 177, 819, 888-9 and the Hyssaldomus Inscription

Chapter 4 Geometry of Allusions: The Reception of Earlier Poetry in Aristophanes' Peace

Part II Classical Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Their Reception

Chapter 5 On Coming after Socrates

Chapter 6 Chimeras of Classicism in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Reception of the Athenian Funeral Orations

Chapter 7 'Our Mind Went to the Platonic Charmides': The Reception of Plato's Charmides in Wilde, Cavafy, and Plutarch

Chapter 8 Naked Apes, Featherless Chickens, and Talking Pigs: Adventures in the Platonic History of Body-hair and Other Human Attributes

Part III Hellenistic and Roman Poetics

Chapter 9 Before the Canon: The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Hellenistic Poetry

Chapter 10 Pun-fried Concoctions: Wor(l)d-Blending in the Roman Kitchen

Chapter 11 Powerful Presences: Horace's Carmen Saeculare and Hellenistic Choral Traditions

Part IV Multimedia and Intercultural Receptions in the Second Sophistic and Beyond

Chapter 12 Received into Dance? Parthenius' Erōtika Pathēmata in the Pantomime Idiom

Chapter 13 Sappho in Pieces

Chapter 14 Hesiodic Rhapsody: The Sibylline Oracles

Chapter 15 Homer and the Precarity of Tradition: Can Jesus Be Achilles?

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-00762-9

1-009-00839-0

1-108-99384-2

OCLC:

1240830249