| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages : portraits) |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and diagrams; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' introduction; PART ONE Homer; 1 Counterfactuals and the plot of the Iliad; 2 Odysseus at the boundaries of pre-culture; 3 The wooden horse and the unmaking of the Odyssey; 4 Constructing the aesthetic body in Homer and beyond; 5 Tapping the wellsprings of action: Aristotle's birth of tragedy as a mimesis of poetic praxis; PART TWO Plato in conversation with epic, tragedy and comedy; 6 "Homer, the first of the tragedians"? Remarks on Plato Republic 10 |
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7 Plato's Hippias Minor as literary criticism8 Between Being and Becoming: comedy, tragedy and the Symposium; 9 Contrafactual education in Sophokles's Philoktetes and Plato's Lysis; 10 Vulgar eros in the Phaedrus; 11 Equality and sortition in Plato's Laws; PART THREE Travel and transmission; 12 A ritualised rethinking of what it meant to be "European" for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus; 13 Menander, Terence and the rape of the clever wife; 14 Sarapis and the emperor of China: some thoughts on comparison |
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15 The desire to live: Aristotle's animals in Hobbes's philosophy of man16 The alchemy of influence: Socrates, Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi; Publications of James M. Redfield; Index |
| Summary |
This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield, whose innovative and theoretically-informed work has been a touchstone for the contributors; it includes an Introduction that discusses Redfield's work, as well as a complete Bibliography of Redfield's scholarship. The volume is divided into three parts: on Homer; Plato in conversation with epic, tragedy, and comedy; and finally reception and transmission. An exploration of the dialectical relationship between literary genre and social form animates many of the essays. Drawing on work in anthropology, linguistics, sociology, art history, and philosophy, this volume offers ground-breaking perspectives on the study of Greek literature. It will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers alike |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2018) |
| Subject |
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
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Plato -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Homer fast |
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Plato fast |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Greek literature
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Philosophy, Ancient
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Redfield, James M., 1935- honouree.
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King, Bruce Michael, editor.
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Doherty, Lillian Eileen, 1952- editor.
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| LC no. |
2018018616 |
| ISBN |
9781315616711 |
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1315616718 |
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9781317205784 |
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1317205782 |
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9781317205777 |
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1317205774 |
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9781317205760 |
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1317205766 |
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