Reception in the Greco-Roman World: Literary Studies in Theory and Practice (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Cambridge University Press, 5/27/2021
EAN 9781316518588, ISBN10: 1316518582
Hardcover, 478 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural contexts, on materiality, on intermediality and on the body. Essays range chronologically from the archaic to the Byzantine periods and address literature (prose and verse; Greek, Roman and Greco-Jewish), philosophy, papyri, inscriptions and dance. Whereas the conventional image of ancient Greek classicism is one of quiet reverence, this book, by contrast, demonstrates how rumbustious, heterogeneous and combative it could be.
Introduction Tim Whitmarsh
Section A. Archaic and Classical Poetics
1. Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar Anna Uhlig
2 Stesichorus and the Name Game Richard P. Martin
3. From Epinician Praise to the Poetry of Encomium on Stone
CEG 177, 819, 888–9, and the Hyssaldomus Inscription Ettore Cingano
4. Geometry of Allusions
The Reception of Earlier Poetry in Aristophanes' Peace Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Section B. Classical Philosophy and Rhetoric, and their Reception
5. On Coming After Socrates Laura Viidebaum
6. Chimeras of Classicism in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Reception of the Athenian Funeral Orations Johanna Hanink
7. 'Our Mind went to the Platonic Charmides'
The Reception of Plato's Charmides in Wilde, Cavafy and Plutarch Timothy Duff
8. Naked Apes, Featherless Chickens, and Talking Pigs
Adventures in the Platonic History of Body-hair and other Human Attributes Alastair J. L. Blanshard
Section C. Hellenistic and Roman Poetics
9. Before the Canon
The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Hellenistic Poetry Annette Harder
10. Pun-fried Concoctions
Wor(l)d-Blending in the Roman Kitchen Emily Gowers
11. Powerful Presences
Horace's Carmen Saeculare and Hellenistic Choral Traditions Giovan Battista D'Alessio
Section D. Multimedia and Intercultural Receptions in the Second Sophistic and Beyond
12. Received into Dance? Parthenius' ErÃ…Âtika PathÄ“mata in the Pantomime Idiom Ismene Lada-Richards
13. Sappho in Pieces Susan A. Stephens
14. Hesiodic Rhapsody
The Sibylline Oracles Helen Van Noorden
15. Homer and the Precarity of Tradition
Can Jesus be Achilles? Simon Goldhill.