LEADER 05245nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910465079003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-08882-7 010 $a9786613088826 010 $a1-4008-3656-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836567 035 $a(CKB)2560000000072859 035 $a(EBL)686415 035 $a(OCoLC)721194563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000520763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335844 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10514099 035 $a(PQKB)11727552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC686415 035 $a(OCoLC)726747833 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36757 035 $a(DE-B1597)446895 035 $a(OCoLC)979779787 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL686415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL308882 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000072859 100 $a20100305d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAesopic conversations$b[electronic resource] $epopular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose /$fLeslie Kurke 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (1150 p.) 225 1 $aMartin classical lectures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14457-5 311 $a0-691-14458-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers. 330 $aExamining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against 410 0$aMartin classical lectures. 606 $aGreek prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFables, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular culture$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C 606 $aPopular culture and literature$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGreek prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFables, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a886/.0109 700 $aKurke$b Leslie$0241869 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465079003321 996 $aAesopic conversations$9257019 997 $aUNINA