Web of Athenaeus

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-674-07328-9
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 216 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus’s Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, and—above all—the wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library. A text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets, the Sophists at Dinner has now received a full literary re-imagining by Jacob, who connects the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans. The Web of Athenaeus simultaneously offers a literary history of the rarest and finest of Greek culture along with a creative anthropology of a Roman imperial world obsessed with the Greek past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacob, Christian

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald

Weitere Mitwirkende

Papaconstantinou, Arietta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek in the Classics Department at Georgetown University.

Papaconstantinou, Arietta
Arietta Papaconstantinou is a Reader in Ancient History in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

Jacob, Christian
Christian Jacob is a Faculty Member, Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.