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1. Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose [2011]
- Kurke, Leslie author.
- Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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- Book — 1 online resource (xxi, 495 pages) : illustrations, plates Digital: data file.
- Summary
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- List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii
- INTRODUCTION I. An Elusive Quarry: In Search of Ancient Greek Popular Culture 2 II. Explaining the Joke: A Road Map for Classicists 16 III. Synopsis of Method and Structure of Argument 46
- PART I: Competitive Wisdom and Popular Culture 51
- CHAPTER 1: Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority 53 I. Ideological Tensions at Delphi 54 II. Th e Aesopic Critique 59 III. Neoptolemus and Aesop: Sacrifi ce, Hero Cult, and Competitive Scapegoating 75
- CHAPTER 2: Sophia before/beyond Philosophy 95 I. Th e Tradition of Sophia 95 II. Sophists and (as) Sages 102 III. Aristotle and the Transformation of Sophia 115
- CHAPTER 3: Aesop as Sage: Political Counsel and Discursive Practice 125 I. Aesop among the Sages 125 II. Political Animals: Fable and the Scene of Advising 142
- CHAPTER 4: Reading the Life: Th e Progress of a Sage and the Anthropology of Sophia 159 I. An Aesopic Anthropology of Wisdom 160 II. Aesop and Ahiqar 176 III. Delphic Th e?ria and the Death of a Sage 185 IV. Th e Bricoleur as Culture Hero, or the Art of Extorting Self-Incrimination 191
- CHAPTER 5: Th e Aesopic Parody of High Wisdom 202 I. Demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Th eognis, and the Seven Sages 204 II. Aesopic Parody in the Visual Tradition? 224
- PART II: Aesop and the Invention of Greek Prose 239
- CHAPTER 6: Aesop at the Invention of Philosophy 241 Prelude to Part II: Th e Problematic Sociopolitics of Mimetic Prose 241 I. Mim?sis and the Invention of Philosophy 244 II. Th e Generic Affi liations of S?kratikoi logoi 251
- CHAPTER 7: Th e Battle over Prose: Fable in Sophistic Education and Xenophon's Memorabilia 265 I. Sophistic Fables 268 II. Traditional Fable Narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia 288
- CHAPTER 8: Sophistic Fable in Plato: Parody, Appropriation, and Transcendence 301 I. Plato's Protagoras: Debunking Sophistic Fable 301 II. Plato's Symposium: Ringing the Changes on Fable 308
- CHAPTER 9: Aesop in Plato's S?kratikoi Logoi: Analogy, Elenchos, and Disavowal 325 I. Sophia into Philosophy: Socrates between the Sages and Aesop 326 II. Th e Aesopic Bricoleur and the "Old Socratic Tool-Box" 330 III. Sympotic Wisdom, Comedy, and Aesopic Competition in Hippias Major 344
- CHAPTER 10: Histori? and Logopoia: Two Sides of Herodotean Prose 361 I. History before Prose, Prose before History 362 II. Aesop Ho Logopoios 370 III. Plutarch Reading Herodotus: Aesop, Ruptures of Decorum, and the Non-Greek 382
- CHAPTER 11: Herodotus and Aesop: Some Soundings 398 I. Cyrus Tells a Fable 400 II. Greece and (as) Fable, or Resignifying the Hierarchy of Genre 404 III. Fable as History 412 IV. Th e Aesopic Contract of the Histories: Herodotus Teaches His Readers 426
- Bibliography 433 Index Locorum 463 General Index 478.
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2. Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose [2011]
- Kurke, Leslie.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
- Description
- Book — xxi, 495 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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- List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii
- INTRODUCTION I. An Elusive Quarry: In Search of Ancient Greek Popular Culture 2 II. Explaining the Joke: A Road Map for Classicists 16 III. Synopsis of Method and Structure of Argument 46
- PART I: Competitive Wisdom and Popular Culture 51
- CHAPTER 1: Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority 53 I. Ideological Tensions at Delphi 54 II. Th e Aesopic Critique 59 III. Neoptolemus and Aesop: Sacrifi ce, Hero Cult, and Competitive Scapegoating 75
- CHAPTER 2: Sophia before/beyond Philosophy 95 I. Th e Tradition of Sophia 95 II. Sophists and (as) Sages 102 III. Aristotle and the Transformation of Sophia 115
- CHAPTER 3: Aesop as Sage: Political Counsel and Discursive Practice 125 I. Aesop among the Sages 125 II. Political Animals: Fable and the Scene of Advising 142
- CHAPTER 4: Reading the Life: Th e Progress of a Sage and the Anthropology of Sophia 159 I. An Aesopic Anthropology of Wisdom 160 II. Aesop and Ahiqar 176 III. Delphic Th e?ria and the Death of a Sage 185 IV. Th e Bricoleur as Culture Hero, or the Art of Extorting Self-Incrimination 191
- CHAPTER 5: Th e Aesopic Parody of High Wisdom 202 I. Demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Th eognis, and the Seven Sages 204 II. Aesopic Parody in the Visual Tradition? 224
- PART II: Aesop and the Invention of Greek Prose 239
- CHAPTER 6: Aesop at the Invention of Philosophy 241 Prelude to Part II: Th e Problematic Sociopolitics of Mimetic Prose 241 I. Mim?sis and the Invention of Philosophy 244 II. Th e Generic Affi liations of S?kratikoi logoi 251
- CHAPTER 7: Th e Battle over Prose: Fable in Sophistic Education and Xenophon's Memorabilia 265 I. Sophistic Fables 268 II. Traditional Fable Narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia 288
- CHAPTER 8: Sophistic Fable in Plato: Parody, Appropriation, and Transcendence 301 I. Plato's Protagoras: Debunking Sophistic Fable 301 II. Plato's Symposium: Ringing the Changes on Fable 308
- CHAPTER 9: Aesop in Plato's S?kratikoi Logoi: Analogy, Elenchos, and Disavowal 325 I. Sophia into Philosophy: Socrates between the Sages and Aesop 326 II. Th e Aesopic Bricoleur and the "Old Socratic Tool-Box" 330 III. Sympotic Wisdom, Comedy, and Aesopic Competition in Hippias Major 344
- CHAPTER 10: Histori? and Logopoiia: Two Sides of Herodotean Prose 361 I. History before Prose, Prose before History 362 II. Aesop Ho Logopoios 370 III. Plutarch Reading Herodotus: Aesop, Ruptures of Decorum, and the Non-Greek 382
- CHAPTER 11: Herodotus and Aesop: Some Soundings 398 I. Cyrus Tells a Fable 400 II. Greece and (as) Fable, or Resignifying the Hierarchy of Genre 404 III. Fable as History 412 IV. Th e Aesopic Contract of the Histories: Herodotus Teaches His Readers 426
- Bibliography 433 Index Locorum 463 General Index 478.
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- Kurke, Leslie.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.
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- Book — xxi, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage 3 I. What Is Coinage for? Numismatic and Historical Debates 6 II. Literary Methodology 23 III. The Structure of the Argument 32 PART ONE: DISCOURSES Chapter One The Language of Metals 41 I. Forging the Language of Metals 45 II. Metals and Others in Herodotus 60 Chapter Two Tyrants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis 65 I. Darius and the Daric 68 II. Darius Kapelos 80 III. Amasis the Vulgar Tyrant 89 Chapter Three Counterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates 101 I. Counterfeiting and Violated Exchange 101 II. Cosmic Reciprocity ill III. Gift Exchange as Civic Violence 121 Chapter Four Kroisos and the Oracular Economy 130 I. Kroisos in Epinikion 131 II. Gift Exchange, the Grotesque Body, and the Civic Norm 142 III. Competing Economies, Competing Epiphanies 152 IV. Lydians and Ludopatheis: The Gap between History and Ethnography 165 PART TWO: PRACTICES Chapter Five The Hetaira and the Porne 175 I. Inventing the Hetaira 178 II. The Porne and the Public Sphere 187 III. Ideological Faultlines 199 Chapter Six Herodotus's Traffic in Women 220 I. Herodotean Pressure: Destabilizing the Terms 220 II. Herodotean Alternatives: Reimagining the Public Sphere 227 Chapter Seven Games People Play 247 I. Games and Other Symbolic Systems 248 II. Pessoi: The Mediation of the Game Board 254 III. Aristocratic Games: Embodiment, Chance, and Ordeal 275 IV. Herodotean Games 295 Chapter Eight Minting Citizens 299 I. The Two Sides of the Coin: Materiality as Ideology 301 II. Coins Are Good to Think with 316 III. Changing the Currency 328 Conclusion Ideology, Objects, and Subjects 332 Bibliography 337 Index Locorum 365 General Index 373.
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The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. This book analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage, using the imagery to trace the rising egalitarian ideology of the polis.
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- Kurke, Leslie.
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1991.
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- Book — xiv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Neer, Richard T., author.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
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- Book — xiv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Transliteration Introduction. The Propinquity of Things Part I. Orientations and Local Spaces
- Chapter 1. Two Spatial Technologies: The Map and the Chorus
- Chapter 2. Statues, Songs, and Spaces
- Chapter 3. The Strength of Equipment and the Radiance of Song: Collaborative Effects
- Chapter 4. Fr. 75 SM and the Politics of Athenian Space Part II. Pindar's Cyrene: Pythians 4, 5, and 9
- Chapter 5. Cyrene, a Pindaric Schema
- Chapter 6. The City, the Body, and the Eye Part III. Pindar's Greece: Olympian 6 and the Spaces of Tyranny
- Chapter 7. Epigraphy, Architecture, Song: Olympian 6 and Other Gifts
- Chapter 8. Pindar's Transports Coda. Towards a Lyric Archaeology Appendix. Dating the Porch of the Geloan Treasury at Olympia Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index.
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- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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- Book — xvii, 289 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- 1. Introduction Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke-- Part I. The Circulation of Cultures:
- 2. 'Culture' of 'cultures'?: Hellenism in the late-sixth century Jonathan M. Hall--
- 3. The Aristonothos Krater: competing stories of conflict and collaboration Carol Dougherty--
- 4. Hybridity and the cultures within Greek culture Carla Antonaccio-- Part II. Negotiation and Conflict at the Margins: The Case of Delphi:
- 5. Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority Leslie Kurke--
- 6. Aristocratic victory memorials and the absent charioteer Nigel Nicholson--
- 7. Framing and gift: the Siphnian treasury at Delphi and the politics of public art Richard T. Neer-- Part III:
- 8. The pipes are brawling: conceptualizing musical performance in archaic Athens Richard P. Martin--
- 9. The sound of cultural conflict: Kritias and the culture of Mousike in Athens Peter Wilson--
- 10. Becoming the 'other': attitudes and practices at Attic cemeteries Katarzyna Hagemajer Allen--
- 11. Postscript: culture, thin coherence, and the persistence of politics Josiah Ober.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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- Book — 1 online resource (288 pages)
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- Introduction / Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke
- Poetics of power : the interpretation of ritual action in Archaic Greece / Ian Morris
- The archaeology of ancestors / Carla Antonaccio
- Divine selection : epiphany and politics in Archaic Greece / Rebecca H. Sinos
- Hipparchos and the rhapsodes / H.A. Shapiro
- The seven sages as performers of wisdom / Richard P. Martin
- The economy of kudos / Leslie Kurke
- Hero cult and politics in Herodotus : the bones of Orestes / Deborah Boedeker
- It's murder to found a colony / Carol Dougherty
- Thucydides' Solonian reflections / Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
- The Athenian revolution of 508/7 B.C.E. : violence, authority, and the origins of democracy / Josiah Ober.
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Book — 266 p.
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- Part I. The Uses of the Past: Part II. Politics and Performance: Part III. Negotiating Civic Crisis: Part IV. The End of an Era.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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- Book — xvi, 266 p.
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece
- 3. The Archaeology of Ancestors
- 4. Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece
- 5. Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes
- 6. The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom
- 7. The Economy of Kudos
- 8. Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes
- 9. It's Murder to Found a Colony
- 10. Thucydides' Solonion Reflections
- 11. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BCE: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy
- Bibliography.
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Description
- Book — xiii, 408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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- Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke and Naomi Weiss
- Part 1 Keynote Address
- 1 Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the "Newest Sappho" Gregory Nagy
- Part 2 Genre, Generification, and Performance
- 2 Linus: The Rise and Fall of Lyric Genres Andrew Ford
- 3 Sappho's Parachoral Monody Timothy Power
- 4 The Speaking Persona: Ancient Commentators on Choral Performance Francesca Schironi
- Part 3 Genre Mixing
- 5 Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric Deborah Steiner
- 6 Generic Hybridity in Athenian Tragedy Naomi Weiss
- 7 Athens and Apolline Polyphony in Bacchylides' Ode 16 Margaret Foster
- Part 4 Affect, Materiality, and the Body: The Somatics of Genre
- 8 Is Korybantic Performance a (Lyric) Genre? Mark Griffith
- 9 Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax Mario Telo
- 10 Experiencing Elegy: Materiality and Visuality in the Ambracian Polyandrion Seth Estrin
- 11 Pindar, Paean
- 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge Sarah Olsen
- Bibliography Index Locorum General Index.
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Online 11. Paradigm and discourse in archaic greek poetry [electronic resource] [2010]
- Aftosmis, Jason Kelsey.
- 2010.
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- Book — 1 online resource.
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This dissertation is a study in the style of paradeigmata ([Greek word omitted], mytho- logical exempla, exemplary tales) in Archaic Greek poetry and wisdom discourse. Part One comprises two corpus-based studies of Homeric poetry in terms of three linguistic features (discourse markers, relative clauses, and register); each of these studies is fol- lowed by a comparative study in Hesiodic poetry. Here I suggest that genealogical cata- logue poetry known from the Hesiodic tradition is an important traditional resource for these narratives. Part Two makes an analogous study of non-hexameter poetry from the Archaic Period as well as wisdom discourse attributed to Aesop and the Seven Sages. In these chapters I emphasize two strategies in particular: the creation and 'mythologization' of authoritative personae, and the sociocultural import of the stylistic features of ge- nealogical catalogue in select Pindaric odes. Drawing on the findings of Part One and Part Two, the two studies in Part Three present readings of the Iliad and Odyssey through an analysis of how the linguistic features and themes of paradeigmata work at the level of poetic composition.
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