Resemblance and reality in Greek thought : essays in honor of Peter M. Smith /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Smith, Peter M. (Associate Professor Emeritus) (honouree.), Park, Arum (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Paideia / By Sue Guiney
  • Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens / By Arum Park and Mary Pendergraft
  • Part One: Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality: Chapter 1: Metis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of Cunning in Odyssey 9 / By Peter Aicher
  • Chapter 2: Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus' Scar and Eurycleia's Memory / By Jeffrey Beneker
  • Chapter 3: Failure of the Textual Relation: Anacreon's Purple Ball Poem (PMG 358) / By T.H.M. Gellar-Goad
  • Chapter 4: Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar / By Arum Park
  • Chapter 5: Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus / By Keyne Cheshire
  • Part Two: Greek Tragedy: Reality, Expectation, Tradition
  • Chapter 6: Necessity and Universal Reality: The Use of XPH in Aeschylus / By David C.A. Wiltshire
  • Chapter 7: The Arms of Achilles: Tradition and Mythmaking in Sophocles' Philoctetes / By Sheila Murnaghan
  • Chapter 8: The Bad Place: The Horrific House of Euripides' Heracles / By Derek Smith Keyser
  • Chapter 9: The "Hymn to Zeus" (Agamemnon 160-83) and Reasoning from Resemblances / By Edwin Carawan
  • Part Three: Greek Prose: Reality and Appearances
  • Chapter 10: Stereotypes as Faulty Resemblance: Humorous Deception and Ethnography in Herodotus / By Mark C. Mash
  • Chapter 11: The Rational Religion of Xenophon's Socrates / By David Johnson
  • Chapter 12: Wives, Subjects, Sons, and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance in Xenophon's Cyropaedia / By Norman Sandridge
  • Chapter 13: Performing Plato's Forms / By Patrick Lee Miller
  • Epilogue: Echoes of Resemblance and Reality in Latin Literature
  • Chapter 14: Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor / By D. Felton.