LEADER 04464nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910810377903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08743-6 010 $a1-282-93536-4 010 $a9786612087431 010 $a9786612935367 010 $a1-4008-2609-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826094 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491267 035 $a(EBL)445553 035 $a(OCoLC)368312289 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112634 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128404 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112634 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10087790 035 $a(PQKB)10883543 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41515 035 $a(DE-B1597)446323 035 $a(OCoLC)979905195 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826094 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284172 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445553 035 $a(dli)HEB31910 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918775 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491267 100 $a20030324d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBirth of the symbol $eancient readers at the limits of their texts /$fPeter T. Struck 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aBased on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago. 311 0 $a0-691-11697-0 311 0 $a0-691-16226-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction. The Genealogy of the Symbolic --$t1. Symbols and Riddles: Allegorical Reading and the Boundaries of the Text --$t2. Beginnings to 300 B.C.E.: Meaning from the Void of Chance and the Silence Of The Secret --$t3. From the Head of Zeus: The Birth of the Literary Symbol --$t4. Swallowed Children and Bound Gods: The Diffusion of The Literary Symbol --$t5. 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.: The Symbol as Ontological Signifier --$t6. Iamblichus and the Defense of Ritual: Talismanic Symbols --$t7 Moonstones and Men that Glow: Proclus and the Talismanic Signifier --$tEpilogue. Symbol Traces: Post-Proclean Theories --$tAppendix. Chrysippus'S Reading and Authorial Intention: The Case of the Mural at Samos --$tBibliography Of Ancient Authors --$tBibliography Of Modern Authors --$tIndex Locorum --$tGeneral Index 330 $aNearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol." The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists--were the first to develop the notion. Struck extensively revisits the work of the great allegorists, which has been underappreciated. He links their interest in symbolism to the importance of divination and magic in ancient times, and he demonstrates how important symbolism became when they thought about religion and philosophy. "They see the whole of great poetic language as deeply figurative," he writes, "with the potential always, even in the most mundane details, to be freighted with hidden messages." Birth of the Symbol offers a new understanding of the role of poetry in the life of ideas in ancient Greece. Moreover, it demonstrates a connection between the way we understand poetry and the way it was understood by important thinkers in ancient times. 410 0$aACLS Fellows' publications. 606 $aClassical poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSymbolism in literature 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreece 606 $aBooks and reading$zRome 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 606 $aAllegory 615 0$aClassical poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSymbolism in literature. 615 0$aBooks and reading 615 0$aBooks and reading 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 615 0$aAllegory. 676 $a881/.010915 700 $aStruck$b Peter T$0301197 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810377903321 996 $aBirth of the symbol$91771151 997 $aUNINA