Diachrony : Diachronic Studies of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (408 pages)
- MythosEikonPoiesis Series ; v.7 .
- MythosEikonPoiesis Series .
Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction.Diachrony in Synchrony -- Part I. Diachronic Aspects of Greek Literature -- 2. Diomedes' Foot Wound and Homeric Reception of Myth -- 3. Diachronic Shifts between the Epic Past and Future at the Phaeacians.Binding, Chorality, and Fluidity in Demodokos' Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer's Odyssey (8.266-366) -- 4. A Diachronic Metapoetics of Reception. Homeric kleos (κλέος) and Biblical zera' (זרע) -- 5. The Professional Mourner and Singer of Spells.A Diachronic Approach to Euripides' Bacchae -- 6. Aristophanic Satire and the Pretense of Synchrony -- 7. Diachrony and the Case of Aesop -- 8. Splitting the Inheritance of Spite.Dio and Babrius on Iambic Poetics -- Part II. Diachronic Aspects of Greek Culture -- 9. Cultural Change and the Greek Perception of It.Exegi monumentum aere perennius (Horace, Odes 3.30.1) -- 10. Diachrony in Greek Agriculture -- 11. Diachronic Parameters of Athenian Pederasty -- Contributors -- Index Fontium.
This series is dedicated to classical studies in general. The featured essays primarily examine topics relating to the ancient world from the fields of literary, visual, media, theatre, religious, and cultural studies. There is a particular emphasis on the application of modern theories, e.g. in the sphere of anthropology, performativity and narrativity; interdisciplinary comparisons; the mythical/ritual and iconic poetics of texts and images; and the reception of classical material in this context.