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A L’Écoute Des Muses En Grèce Archaïque - La Question De L’Inspiration Dans La Poésie Grecque À L’Aube De Notre Civilisation

by Camille Semenzato

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 Man ist sich heute einig: Die Musen sind weibliche griechische Gottheiten, die mit der Kunst und der Inspiration verbunden sind. Ihre Bedeutung in der archaischen Dichtung ist anerkannte Tatsache. Man ist jedoch hilflos, wenn es darum geht, sie präziser zu fassen und ihr Wirken verständlich zu machen. Als göttliche Personifizierungen der mysteriösen Kunst-Mächte lassen sie sich nur schwer in die Begriffe und Kategorien unseres modernen Verstandes umsetzen. Durch die konsequente Berücksichtigung des Kontextes, Autor für Autor, der vielfältigen Epitheta, der Besonderheiten und spezifischen Handlungen der Musen in epischen und lyrischen Versen des archaischen Griechenlands versucht das Buch, welches die erste vollständige Monographie über die Kunstgöttinnen darstellt, Licht in das Dunkel zu bringen. Die Analyse der 295 ''musischen'' Stellen eröffnet nicht nur eine ganze Reihe neuer Einzeleinsichten, sondern bietet zugleich einen umfassenden Überblick über das reichhaltige und erstaunlich kohärente Phänomen der musischen Inspiration am Anfang unserer Kultur.
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A L’Écoute Des Muses En Grèce Archaïque - La Question De L’Inspiration Dans La Poésie Grecque À L’Aube De Notre Civilisation

by Camille Semenzato

158,34€ + 10% CARD

 Man ist sich heute einig: Die Musen sind weibliche griechische Gottheiten, die mit der Kunst und der Inspiration verbunden sind. Ihre Bedeutung in der archaischen Dichtung ist anerkannte Tatsache. Man ist jedoch hilflos, wenn es darum geht, sie präziser zu fassen und ihr Wirken verständlich zu machen. Als göttliche Personifizierungen der mysteriösen Kunst-Mächte lassen sie sich nur schwer in die Begriffe und Kategorien unseres modernen Verstandes umsetzen. Durch die konsequente Berücksichtigung des Kontextes, Autor für Autor, der vielfältigen Epitheta, der Besonderheiten und spezifischen Handlungen der Musen in epischen und lyrischen Versen des archaischen Griechenlands versucht das Buch, welches die erste vollständige Monographie über die Kunstgöttinnen darstellt, Licht in das Dunkel zu bringen. Die Analyse der 295 ''musischen'' Stellen eröffnet nicht nur eine ganze Reihe neuer Einzeleinsichten, sondern bietet zugleich einen umfassenden Überblick über das reichhaltige und erstaunlich kohärente Phänomen der musischen Inspiration am Anfang unserer Kultur.
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Sculpture, Weaving, And The Body In Plato

by Zacharoula Petraki

163,64€ + 10% CARD

 Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.
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Myth And History: Close Encounters

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 The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
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Reconstructing Satyr Drama

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 The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.
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Epiphanies And Dreams In Greek Polytheism - Textual Genres And ''Reality'' From Homer To Heliodorus

by Michael Lipka

174,90€ + 10% CARD

 While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the ‘epiphany-mindedness’ of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer’s notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks'' lifeworld experience.
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Sculpture, Weaving, And The Body In Plato

by Zacharoula Petraki

163,64€ + 10% CARD

 Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.
Intervisuality - New Approaches To Greek Literature

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 Intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism and has been widely applied to ancient literature, with, perhaps surprisingly, classical scholarship being at the frontline in developing new theoretical approaches. By contrast, the seemingly parallel notion of intervisuality has only recently begun to appear in classical studies. In fact, intervisuality still lacks a clear definition and scope. Unlike intertextuality, which is consistently used with reference to the interrelationship between texts, the term ‘intervisuality’ is used not only to trace the interrelationship between images in the visual domain, but also to explore the complex interplay between the visual and the verbal. It is precisely this hybridity that interests us. Intervisuality has proved extremely productive in fields such as art history and visual culture studies. By bringing together a diverse team of scholars, this project aims to bring intervisuality into sharper focus and turn it into a powerful tool to explore the research field traditionally referred to as ‘Greek literature’.
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Myth And History: Close Encounters

191,46€ + 10% CARD

 The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
ENGLISH

Diachrony - Diachronic Studies Of Ancient Greek Literature And Culture

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 Showcases the importance of diachronic models for the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. In this title, the contributors seek to be methodologically explicit as they build a variety of diachronic approaches to a wide range of subjects. It covers a period that stretches from Homer to Babrius.
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Epiphanies And Dreams In Greek Polytheism - Textual Genres And ''Reality'' From Homer To Heliodorus

by Michael Lipka

174,90€ + 10% CARD

 While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the ‘epiphany-mindedness’ of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer’s notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks'' lifeworld experience.
ENGLISH

Reconstructing Satyr Drama

239,83€ + 10% CARD

 The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.
ENGLISH

Mythological Narratives - The Bold And Faithful Heroines Of The Greek Novel

by Anna Lefteratou

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 This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.
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Intende, Lector - Echoes Of Myth, Religion And Ritual In The Ancient Novel

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 Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels.
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Performing Interpersonal Violence - Court, Curse, And Comedy In Fourth-Century Bce Athens

by Werner Riess

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 This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second.
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Mythological Narratives - The Bold And Faithful Heroines Of The Greek Novel

by Anna Lefteratou

184,18€ + 10% CARD

 This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.
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Time And Space In Ancient Myth, Religion And Culture

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 From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.
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Diachrony - Diachronic Studies Of Ancient Greek Literature And Culture

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Diachrony - Diachronic Studies Of Ancient Greek Literature And Culture

168,28€ + 10% CARD

 Showcases the importance of diachronic models for the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. In this title, the contributors seek to be methodologically explicit as they build a variety of diachronic approaches to a wide range of subjects. It covers a period that stretches from Homer to Babrius.
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Intende, Lector - Echoes Of Myth, Religion And Ritual In The Ancient Novel

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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content="mshtml 8.00.6001.19400"></head> <body> Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings. This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and putting together different methodological tools (intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on the quintessential question of love.</body></html>
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Redefining Dionysos

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Fashioning Immortality - Comparative Studies In Three Pindaric Odes

by Laura Massetti

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Sculpture, Weaving, And The Body In Plato

by Zacharoula Petraki

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Intervisuality - New Approaches To Greek Literature

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