| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 359 pages) |
| Series |
Mnemosyne Supplements, volume 434 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 434.
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| Contents |
Who or what is the night? Night as measure, mother, and metaphor in the Hesiodic cosmos / Adrienne Atkins -- First-born of night or oozing from the slime?: deviant origins in Orphic cosmogonies / Radcliffe G. EdmondsIII -- Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy. Night as diagnostic: marker in Hippocratic medicine / Ralph M. Rosen -- Nights of insight: Plato on the philosophical qualities of the night / Albert Joosse -- Night's fictions: the religious institutions of Numain Lucilius fr .484-489 (Marx) / Cynthia Damon -- The astronomer-poet at night: the evolution of a motif / Kathryn Wilson -- Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night. A night attack in the Seven against Thebes / Isabella Reinhardt -- Tragedy of darkness: the role of night in Euripides' Rhesus / Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten -- The witching hour: wakeful women at work in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus / Amelia Bensch-Schaus -- Noxreipublicae?: Catiline's and Cicero's nocturnal activities in the Catilinarians / Christoph Pieper -- Inn-dependent : spending the night in a hostel in the Roman world / Jane Sancinito -- Experiencing by Night. Better safe than sorry: nocturnal divinatory signs from a first-century BCE Roman perspective / Kim Beerden -- Through the eyes of the night: Ecphrasis of nocturnal ambush scenes in Roman epic and historiography / Selina Weissmantel -- Nocturnal negotiations: experiencing the night scenes from the Iliad at the house of Octavius Quartio, PompeiiII 2.2 / Barbara Kellum -- Persius' nocturnal inspiration in the light of day / Jennifer Ferriss-Hill |
| Summary |
"In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a focus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, with topics ranging from Night in Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values-in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or not"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020) |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Night in literature -- Congresses
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Light and darkness in literature -- Congresses
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Classical literature
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Light and darkness in literature
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Night in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ker, James, editor.
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Wessels, Antje, editor.
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| LC no. |
2020023496 |
| ISBN |
9004436367 |
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9789004436367 |
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