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• La poétique de Choérilos de Samos. Remarques sur l'originalité compositionnelle d'un poème historique de la fin du Ve siècle et sur son interprétation
• Eocpia et aoyég chez Eschyle
• La Grâce Violente du dieu. Une interprétation du Zeus de l'Orestie d'Eschyle à la lumière de la théologie présocratique
• Le savoir de Médée
• La sophia de Mélanippe. Théâtre athénien et discours de savoir féminins
• De l'élégie d' Andromaque au Wb' lm d'Hélène. Le réinvestissement dramaturgique du savoir-faire koinôgonique de l'ancienne élégie parénétique
• La maladie d'Oreste. Réalité et apparence entre sophistique et littérature médicale (Euripide, Oreste, 235 sqq.)
• Crise de la mantique et pathologie de la perception dans l'Oreste d'Euripide
• Allégorie du mythe et étude de la nature dans le théâtre d'Euripide.

"Deuxième volet du programme "Le problème de la réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoirs antérieurs", il s'agit dans cet ouvrage d'étudier les compositions des poètes, qu'il s'agisse de la poésie épique historique (Choérilos de Samos), de la tragédie (Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide) et de la comédie (Aristophane). Quelles relations entretenaient-ils avec leurs prédécesseurs de l'époque archaïque ? Quels sens donnaient-ils aux mots sophos, sophia ou sophistès? De quels types de savoirs se faisaient-ils les passeurs ou les promoteurs ? Savoirs anciens qu'ils pouvaient se réapproprier tout en les transformant ; savoirs qui, parfois, pouvaient entrer en conflit ; savoirs nouveaux, enfin, dont ces poètes étaient les promoteurs."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: archaeologies of literature
• 1. Authors, forms, and the creation of a literary culture
• 2. Image, metaphor, concept: the semantics of poetic language
• 3. Speech acts, social personas, and poetic veridiction
• 4. Genre hybridity and the literary artefact
• Epilogue: poetry and immortality.
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Pindar and the Emergence of Literature places Pindar in the context of the evolution of Archaic Greek poetics. While presenting an in-depth introduction to diverse aspects of Pindar's art (authorial metapoetics, imagery, genre hybridization, religion, social context, and dialect), it seeks to establish a middle ground between cultural contextualism and literary history, paying attention both to poetry's historical milieu and its uncanny capacity to endure in time. With that methodological objective, the book marshals a new version of historical poetics, drawing both on theorists usually associated with this approach, such as Alexander Veselovsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg, and on T. S. Eliot, Hans Blumenberg, Fredric Jameson, and Stephen Greenblatt. The ultimate literary-historical problem posed by Pindar's poetics, which this book sets out to solve, is the transformation of pre-literary structures rooted in folk communal art into elements that still inform our notion of literature.
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• List of Illustrations xi Foreword xiii Preface xvii Note on Translations xix List of Abbreviations xxi TRAGIC PRELUDE The Yoke of Eros 3 PART ONE: THE TOPICS OF EROS 11
• CHAPTER I The Eros of the Melic Poets 13 1. The Actions of Bittersweet Eros 14 2. Physiologies of Erotic Desire 19 3. Strategies of Love 23 4. A Variety of Passions 29 5. Metaphors for the Assuaging of Desire 33 6. The Erotic Charms of Poetry 36
• CHAPTER II The Eros of Epic Poetry 39 1. Scenes of Mutual Love 39 2. Scenes of Seduction 43 3. Beguiling Words 46 PART TWO: THE SYMBOLIC PRACTICES OF EROS 49
• CHAPTER III The Pragmatic Effects of Love Poetry 51 1. The Erotic Functions of Melic Poetry 52 2. The Loves of Alexandrian Writers 56
• CHAPTER IV The Pragmatics of Erotic Iconography 65 1. Figurative Representations of Love 65 2. The Functions of Erotic Images 72 PART THREE: EROS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 89
• CHAPTER V Eros in the Masculine: The polis 91 1. The Propaedeutic Practices of the Symposium 93 2. Erotic Practices of the Palaestra 101
• CHAPTER VI Eros in the Feminine: The Oikos 110 1. An Intermediate Status: The Hetaira at the Banquet 111 2. The Transition to Maturity: The Young Wife 116
• CHAPTER VII Dionysiac Challenges to Love 130 1. The Institution of Comedy 133 2. The Institution of Tragedy 141 PART FOUR: THE SPACES OF EROS 151
• CHAPTER VIII The Meadows and Gardens of Legend 153 1. Eroticized Meadows 154 2. The Orchards and Gardens of Aphrodite 157 3. Flowers, Fruits, and Cereals 160
• CHAPTER IX The Meadows and Gardens of the Poets 165 1. The Metaphorical Spaces of Love 165 2. The Ideal Domains of the Gods 167 3. Religious Gardens 170 PART FIVE: THE METAPHYSICS OF EROS 175
• CHAPTER X Eros as Demiurge and Philosopher 177 1. Eros as a Cosmogonic Principle 178 2. Erotic Forms of the Initiation to Beauty 181 3. Love as a Metaphysician 186
• CHAPTER XI Mystic Eros 192 1. Eros in the Orphic Theogonies 193 2. The Mystic Aspects of Eros 195 ELEGIAC CODA Eros the Educator 198 Bibliography 201 Name Index 207 Subject Index 211.
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The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations. Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics. Calame's treatment of archaic and classical Greek institutions reveals Eros at work in initiation rites and celebrations, educational practices, the Dionysiac theater of tragedy and comedy, and in real and imagined spatial settings. For men, Eros functioned particularly in the symposium and the gymnasium, places where men and boys interacted and where future citizens were educated. The household was the setting where girls, brides, and adult wives learned their erotic roles--as such it provides the context for understanding female rites of passage and the problematics of sexuality in conjugal relations. Through analyses of both Greek language and practices, Calame offers a fresh, subtle reading of relations between individuals as well as a quick-paced and fascinating overview of Eros in Greek society at large.
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• Introduction
• Greek tragedy and society / Charles Segal
• Polis and monarch in early Attic tragedy / Anthony Podlecki
• Thebes : theater of self and society in Athenian drama / From a Zeitlin
• Politics and madness / Michael Davis
• This politics of Antigone / Warren J. and Ann M. Lane
• Human action and political action in the Oedipus tyrannos / Joel Schwartz
• Oedipus at Colonus / Laura Slatkin
• Political corruption in Euripides' Orestes / J. Peter Euben
• Myths and the origins of cities : reflections on the autochthony theme in Euripides' Ion / Arlene Saxonhouse
• Tragedy and the education of the Demos : Aristotle's response to Plato / Stephen G. Salkever.

This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.
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• Introduction
• national imaginary, collective identity and individualism in Greek fiction
• "Palaiologos's O Polypathis" - Picaresque (auto)biography as a national romance
• selfhood
• natural law and social resistance in "The Murderess"
• a hero without a cause
• self-identity in "Vasilis Arvanitis"
• the poetics of manhood
• genre and self-identity in freedom and death
• tyrants and prisoners - narrative fusion and the hybrid Self in "The Third Wedding"
• defying the social context
• narratives of exile and the lonely Self
• fool's gold and Achilles' fiancee
• politics and self-representation
• "Moscov Selim" and "The Life of Ismail Pasha" - narratives of identity and the semiotic chora.
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The Other Self is the first English-language, book-length literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A must read for anyone interested in Greek literature and culture, it offers both a solid introduction to modern Greek literature and close reading of individual texts. Author Dimitris Tziovas focuses on the issues of identity, autobiography, and social determinism raised in these texts.
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The queston of why Plato censored poetry in his "Republic" has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In "Exiling the Poets" Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original approach to this problem, reading Plato's censorship as a creative and transformative act intended to produce literature, philosophy and a reciprocal relationship between them. Naddaff's approach identifies two distinct censorships in the "Republic". With his first censorship, in books 2 and 3, Plato constitutes poetry as literature that matters and the poet as a legitimate (though ultimately vanquished) rival of the philosopher. In book 10's second censorship, Plato exiles the poets as a mode of self-subversion, thereby rethinking and revising his theories of mimesis, the soul and, most important, his first censorship of poetry. Finally, with the poetic myth of Er, Plato censors his own censorships of poetry, thus producing the unexpected result of a poetically animated and open-ended dialectical philosophy. "Exiling the Poets" should interest not just classicists, philosophers and historians of rhetoric but anyone concerned with the historical contexts of censorship.
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The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome. In a fruitful variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the questions: what generic rules were recognized and observed by the Greeks and Romans over the centuries; what competing schemes were there for classifying genres and accounting for literary change; and what role did authors play in maintaining and developing generic contexts? Their essays look at tragedy, epigram, hymns, rhapsodic poetry, history, comedy, bucolic poetry, prophecy, Augustan poetry, commentaries, didactic poetry, and works that "mix genres". The contributors bring to this analysis a wide range of expertise; they are, in addition to the editors, Glenn A. Most, Joseph Day, Ian Rutherford, Deborah Boedeker, Eric Csapo, Marco Fantuzzi, Stephanie West, Alessandro Barchiesi, Ineke Sluiter, Don Fowler and Stephen Hinds. The essays are drawn from a colloquium at Harvard's Centre for Hellenic Studies.
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• Acknowledgments ix A Note on Sources xi Introduction 3
• Chapter One: Religious Silence without an Ineffable God 9 Sonorous Prayers and Degrees of Silence 9 The Injunction of Ritual Silence 13 Silence and Impurity 17 Closing One's Lips, Closing One's Eyes: Silence in the Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries 23 "Great Reverence for the Goddesses Holds Back the Voice" 32 To Be Silent around the Erinyes 38
• Chapter Two: A Silent Body in a Sonorous World: Silence and Heroic Values in the Iliad 46 Drawing the Silent Body 46 Silence and Verbal Fighting 54 Silence in the Flow of Verbal Exchange 60 Silence and Authoritative Speech 64 Traveling Voices 68 The Resonant Voice of the Homeric Speaker 74 Overcoming Silence 77
• Chapter Three: The Poet's Voice against Silence 82 Silence, Oblivion, and Blame 82 The Vocality of Poetry 91 The Boundless Spreading of Song 97 The Specter of Silent Impotence 101 Silence to Modulate Song 106
• Chapter Four: "I Will Be Silent": Figures of Silence and Representations of Speaking in Athenian Oratory 116 Silence for Useful Speech? 116 The Silent Praise of Oneself 123 Insulting without Insulting 127 Aposiopesis, Euphei? mia, and the Forbidden 132 Perceptions of the Orator's Silence: A Rhetorical Choice or a Sign of Impotence? 137 The Voice of the Orator against the Uproar 144 For an Assembly without Silence 151
• Chapter Five: Words Staging Silence 158 Uttering Silence instead of Emptying the Stage 158 Calls for Silence and Representation of the Audience 167 Long Silences 173 Silence and the Veil 176 Speaking Defines Seeing 181 Words That See Silence 188
• Chapter Six: Silence and Tragic Destiny 193 Tragic Reticences 193 Apollo's Silences and Orders of Silence 199 The Failure of Auspicious Silence 204
• Chapter Seven: Silence, a Herald of Death 213 Cassandra's Demystifying Silence 213 Comic Explosions of Silence 216 "I Fear Lest This Silence May Explode into Misfortunes" 220 Between Silence and Cries: Illnesses of Tragic Heroes 224 Losing One's Voice, Losing One's Life: Silence in the Hippocratic Writings 228 Phaedra's Silence: A Way of Saving Her Honor or of Letting Herself Die? 233 Silence and Suicide 238 Killing in Silence 245
• Chapter Eight: Silence, Ruse, and Endurance: Odysseus and Beyond 252 Women's Silent Conniving in Greek Tragedy 252 Much-Enduring Odysseus, the Master of Cunning Silence 256 Odysseus' Silence as a Model of Behavior in the Odyssey 267 Tragic Odysseus, a Silent Deceiver 276 Ideological Uneasiness about Silence and Secrecy in Classical Athens 281 What Happens to Odysseus' Silent Endurance? 286
• Conclusion 289 Select Bibliography 293 Index 309.
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In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here, Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal given but is rather situated in a complex network of associations and values, Montiglio seeks to establish general principles for understanding silence through analyses of cultural practices, including religion, literature, and law. Unlike the silence of a Christian before an ineffable God, which signifies the uselessness of words, silence in Greek religion paradoxically expresses the power of logos - for example, during prayer and sacrifice, it serves as a shield against words that could offend the gods. Montiglio goes on to explore silence in the world of the epic hero, where words are equated with action and their absence signals paralysis or tension in power relationships. Her other examples include oratory, a practice in which citizens must balance their words with silence in very complex ways in order to show that they do not abuse their right to speak. Inquiries into lyric poetry, drama, medical writings, and historiography round out this unprecedented study, revealing silence as a force in its own right.
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