Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature : Athenian Dialogues I / Efi Papadodima.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papadodima, Efi, Editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 100.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature

The Sound of Silence: Performing Silence in Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry

Silence and Concealment in Pindar

Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus

The Silences of Chariclea in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: From Cunning to Shame

Silences in Aristophanes’ Dramas

The Rhetoric and Theatrics of the Unspeakable in Tragedy

The Power of Logos and the Power of Silence

The Unspeakable and the Unspoken

Silence and Motivation in Sophocles’ Ajax

Silence and Song in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Ion

Women’s Silence and Its Transcendence in Greek Tragedy

The Novelty of Tragic Silence

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index of Terms

Index of Sources

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110695625

3110695626

OCLC:

1153474852