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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damon, Cynthia, 1957- author.

Pieper, Christoph, author.

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 423.

Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; no 423

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition--History--To 1500.

Competition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Competition is everywhere in antiquity. It took many forms: the upper class competed with their peers and with historical and mythological predecessors; artists of all kinds emulated generic models and past masterpieces; philosophers and their schools vied with one another to give the best interpretation of the world; architects and doctors tried to outdo their fellow craftsmen. Discord and conflict resulted, but so did innovation, social cohesion, and political stability. In Hesiod's view Eris was not one entity but two, the one a “grievous goddess,” the other an “aid to men.” Eris vs. Aemulatio examines the functioning and effect of competition in ancient society, in both its productive and destructive aspects.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Notes on Contributors / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Introduction / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Eris Reimagined / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Hesiodic Eris and the Market / Ruth Scodel

Ambivalence, Critique, Resistance / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Agonistic Excess and Its Ritual Resolution in Hero Cult: the Funeral Games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme / Anton Bierl

Certare alterno carmine: the Rise and Fall of Bucolic Competition / Yelena Baraz

Stasis, Competition, and the ‘Noble Lie’: Metic Mettle in Plato’s Republic / Geoffrey W. Bakewell

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

Aristotle’s Poetics and skênikoi agônes / Oliver Taplin

Paradoxes and Anxieties of Competition in Hippocratic Medicine / Ralph M. Rosen

Multivalence, Displacement, Innovation / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Sleights of Hand: Epigraphic Capping and the Visual Enactment of Eris in Early Greek Epigrams / Deborah Steiner

Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal Society / Christopher Siwicki

Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome / Seth Bernard

Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia / Lewis Webb

The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and Ovid / Charles T. Ham

Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary Criticism / Casper C. de Jonge

Competition and Competitiveness in Pollux’s Onomasticon / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38397-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004383975 DOI