Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture : case studies / edited by Giulio Colesanti and Laura Lulli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colesanti, Giulio, editor.

Lulli, Laura, editor.

Series:

Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book is the second volume of a series of studies dealing with the Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture (s. vol. 1: G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, eds., Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter, 2014). It is a peculiar starting point of the research in the field of Greek culture, since it casts a light on many case studies so far not yet analyzed as literary products subjected to the process of submersion: e.g. oracles, philosophy, phlyax play, epigrams, Aesopic fables, periplus, sacred texts, mysteries, medical treatises, dance, music. Therefore the book investigates the complex and manifold dynamics of ‘emergence’ and ‘submersion’ in ancient Greek literary culture, dealing especially with matters as the interaction between orality and literacy, the authorship, the cultural transmission, the folklore. Moreover, the book offers the reader new stimulating approaches in order to reconstruct the wide frame which contained the overall cultural processes, including the literary products subjected to the submersion, in a chronological span going from Greek archaic age to the Imperial age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introductory Notes

A Scholarch Denied: Leucippus, Founder of Ancient Atomism

Sopater of Paphus and the Phlyax Plays

Reading the New Erechtheid Casualty List from Marathon

To Produce Poetry in Order to Submerge it: Socrates’ Aesopic Experience (Plat. Phaedo 60 b1‒61 b7)

The Muse Looks Down: Theocritus and the Hellenistic Aesthetic of the ‘Submerged’

An Exceptional Survivor and Its Submerged Background: The Periplus Maris Erythraei and the Indian Ocean Travelogue Tradition

Traditions on Armenia in Submerged Greek Literature: Preliminary Considerations

Sacred Texts and Consecrated Texts

Covered by Silence: Hidden Texts and Secret Rites in the Ancient Mystery Cults

Orphics at Olbia?

The Gynaecological and Nosological Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: the Tip of an Iceberg

Dance in Attic and Argive Geometric Pottery: Figurative Imagery and Ritual Contexts

Potters and Painters in Archaic Corinth: Schemata and Images

Ariadne and Her Companions

A Tale of Mummies, Drinking Parties, and Cultic Practices: Submerged Texts and the Papyrological Evidence

The Circulation and Transmission of Greek Adespota in Roman Egypt

La cathédrale engloutie. Greek Music from the Perspective of the Submerged

The Submerged Musicology of Ancient Greece

Traces of Folk Music in Ancient Greek Drama

Index Nominum

Index Rerum Notabilium

Index Locorum

Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110428636

3110428636

9783110428728

3110428725

OCLC:

946712588