| Series |
Routledge monographs in classical studies
Routledge monographs in classical studies. ^A1003956
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| Contents |
Paideia / By Sue Guiney -- 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. |
| Abstract |
"This volume of essays 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2016000800 |
| ISBN | 9781138955226 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1138955221 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
