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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: poetics of failure in ancient Greece
  name:
    name part: Dova, Stamatia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of epic, lyric and tragic poetry, the book engages into a thorough discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and collective experience. Stamatia Dova revisits key passages from the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Pindar's epinician odes, Euripides' Herakles and other texts to identify a poetics of failure that encompasses gods, heroes, athletes and citizens alike. From Odysseus' shortcomings as a captain in the Odyssey to the defeat of anonymous wrestlers at the 460 B.C.E. Olympics in Pindar, this study examines failure from a mythological, literary and historical perspective. Mindful of ancient Greek society's emphasis on honor and shame, Dova's in-depth analysis also sheds light on cultural responses to failure as well as on its preservation in societal memory, as in the case of Phrynichos' The Fall of Miletos in 493 B.C.E. Athens. In ten chapters treating aspects of failure in different texts, this book studies the question of how and why we fail as ancient Greek literary paradigms tried to answer it.
  table of contents: Odysseus' Failure and the Opening of our Odyssey -- Theseus, Peirithoos, and the Poetics of a Failed katabasis -- Herakles and the Limits of Sanity -- Whose Fault is it? -- Achilles, Melikertes, and the Perils of Immersion -- Who Wants Tithonos' Immortality? -- On Heroes and Athletes in Homer -- Winner takes all -- Neither Silver nor Bronze -- Collective aposiōpēsis and the Failure of the Ionian Revolt.
  note: Stamatia Dova.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-195) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Greek literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PA3052 .D69 2020
  classification: 881.009/353
  identifier: 9781472479112
  identifier: 1472479114
  identifier: 9781315554587
  identifier: 9781317021070
  identifier: 9781317021063
  identifier: 9781317021056
  identifier: 2019054158
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191125
    record change date: 20200803151404.0
    record identifier: in00004099820