Arktouros
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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
9783110837629
Edition
1
Topic
Storia

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Epic and Lyric Poetry:
  3. Originality and Intentionality
  4. “A Thousand Shapes of Death”: Heroic Immortality in the Iliad
  5. Is Hector androphonost
  6. Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod
  7. Sappho’s Circumstances
  8. Sappho and Acheron
  9. Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
  10. Pindar’s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations
  11. Îșα᜶ ÎșÎ”áœ·ÎœÎżÎčς: Pindar, Nemean 5.22
  12. Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus’ Idyll 2
  13. Drama
  14. O suitably – attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy
  15. Attossa’s Absence in the Final Scene of the Persea of Aeschylus
  16. A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus’ Source
  17. Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus’ Choephori
  18. Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles’ Ajax
  19. On the ‘Eye’ and the ‘Phallos’ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex
  20. Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context
  21. A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Pbiloctetes 1436
  22. Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides’ Hippolytus
  23. Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The ‘Demeter Ode’ in Euripides’ Helen
  24. Iphigeneia in Love
  25. Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae
  26. “Let Them Eat Cakes” – Three Food Notes to Aristophanes’ Peace
  27. Boy Actors in New Comedy
  28. Optatives of Consent and Refusal
  29. Society and History
  30. Hero Cult in the ‘Age of Homer’ and Earlier
  31. The Athenian Law against Hybris
  32. Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher
  33. Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I
  34. Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined
  35. Thucydides 2.65.12
  36. The Arche of Thucydides’ War
  37. Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis
  38. Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates
  39. Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas
  40. A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia
  41. Philosophy:
  42. “Nothing” as “Not-Being”: Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato
  43. Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras’ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution
  44. Justice and Temperance in Republic IV
  45. Socrates’ Prayer to Pan
  46. The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato’s Seventh Letter
  47. How Credible are Plato’s Myths?
  48. Theophrastus on Fate and Character
  49. History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch’s Lycurgus
  50. Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D
  51. Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle?
  52. Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia
  53. Aftermath:
  54. Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace’s Satires
  55. Horaz II 13
  56. Seneca’s Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization
  57. KaltblĂŒtiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jĂŒngeren Plinius
  58. A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi
  59. Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians
  60. Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478–1978)
  61. Plates
  62. List of Plates