Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought

Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-95522-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from the time of Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship between verbal art and the social, historical, or cultural reality that produces it, an awareness that this relationship is an approximate one at best and a distorting one at worst. This central theme of resemblance and its relationship to reality draws together essays on a range of Greek authors, and shows how they are unified or allied in posing similar questions to classical literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Arum

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Paideia

By Sue Guiney

Contributors

Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens

By Arum Park and Mary Pendergraft

Part One

Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality

Chapter 1: Metis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of Cunning in Odyssey 9

By Peter Aicher

Chapter 2: Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus’ Scar and Eurycleia’s Memory

By Jeffrey Beneker

Chapter 3: Failure of the Textual Relation: Anacreon’s Purple Ball Poem (PMG 358)

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Chapter 4: Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar.

By Arum Park

Chapter 5: Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus

By Keyne Cheshire

Part Two

Greek Tragedy: Reality, Expectation, Tradition

Chapter 6: Necessity and Universal Reality: The Use of XPH in Aeschylus

By David C.A. Wiltshire

Chapter 7: The Arms of Achilles: Tradition and Mythmaking in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

By Sheila Murnaghan

Chapter 8: The Bad Place: The Horrific House of Euripides’ Heracles

By Derek Smith Keyser

Chapter 9: The "Hymn to Zeus" (Agamemnon 160-83) and Reasoning from Resemblances

By Edwin Carawan

Part Three

Greek Prose: Reality and Appearances

Chapter 10: Stereotypes as Faulty Resemblance: Humorous Deception and Ethnography in Herodotus

By Mark C. Mash

Chapter 11: The Rational Religion of Xenophon’s Socrates

By David Johnson

Chapter 12: Wives, Subjects, Sons, and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

By Norman Sandridge

Chapter 13: Performing Plato’s Forms

By Patrick Lee Miller

Epilogue

Echoes of Resemblance and Reality in Latin Literature

Chapter 14: Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor

By D. Felton

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arum Park is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, but she has published on a wide range of authors, including Hesiod, Pindar, Ovid, and Longus. Her current book project, supported by a 2012-13 fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies, treats the concepts of truth, gender, and genre in Pindar and Aeschylus.