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LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature : In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki / ed. by Myrto Aloumpi, Antony Augoustakis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 166Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XV, 812 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111447681
  • 9783111448848
  • 9783111448282
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον -- Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric -- Three Homeric Puzzles -- Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 -- Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again -- Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited -- Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG -- Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 -- Singing into Being -- The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 -- Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar -- The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus -- How Real is Sympotic Prayer? -- Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) -- Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) -- Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 -- A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus -- Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum -- Part II: Greek Drama -- The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device -- Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress -- Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache -- Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache -- Happy Citizens in Euripides -- “What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes -- Part III: Greek Prose -- Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature -- The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece -- Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias -- On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others -- A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) -- The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach -- “Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia -- “Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς -- Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis -- Polybian Temporalities -- A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch -- Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch -- Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic -- What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian -- A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee -- Part IV: Latin Literature -- The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina -- Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? -- The Poetics of the Roman Triumph -- Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic -- The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 -- Epilogue -- An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society -- List of Contributors -- General Index
Summary: This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον -- Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric -- Three Homeric Puzzles -- Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 -- Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again -- Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited -- Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG -- Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 -- Singing into Being -- The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 -- Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar -- The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus -- How Real is Sympotic Prayer? -- Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) -- Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) -- Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 -- A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus -- Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum -- Part II: Greek Drama -- The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device -- Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress -- Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache -- Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache -- Happy Citizens in Euripides -- “What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes -- Part III: Greek Prose -- Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature -- The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece -- Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias -- On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others -- A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) -- The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach -- “Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia -- “Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς -- Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis -- Polybian Temporalities -- A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch -- Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch -- Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic -- What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian -- A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee -- Part IV: Latin Literature -- The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina -- Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? -- The Poetics of the Roman Triumph -- Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic -- The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 -- Epilogue -- An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society -- List of Contributors -- General Index

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This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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