From Polypragmon to curiosus [[electronic resource] ] : ancient concepts of curious and meddlesome / / Matthew Leigh

• Autore: Leigh Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.09353
• Soggetto topico: Thucydides - Language; Classical literature - History and criticism; Greek language - Semantics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""(1) Theme and Method""; ""(2) Principles of Inquiry""; ""(3) Significance and Synonymity""; ""(4) Structure and Parameters of Investigation""; ""(5) Some Key Texts""; ""1. Polypragmosyne and Periergia from Thucydides to Theophrastus""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Polypragmosyne and the Boundaries of Propriety""; ""(3) Aristotle and Political Polypragmosyne""; ""(4) The Individual as Polypragmon""; ""(5) Sykophants and Polypragmones in Rhetoric""; ""(6) The Aristophanic Polypragmon""; ""(7) The Philosopher as Polypragmon"" ; ""(8) Polypragmosyne and the Interventionist State""""(9) Peisetairos, Aesop, and Polypragmosyne""; ""(10) Demosthenes, Aristomedes, and Levels of Periergia""; ""(11) Theophrastus and the Periergos""; ""(12) Conclusion""; ""2. Translating Polypragmosyne""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Curiosus and Care""; ""(3) Pragma, Negotium, Cura""; ""(4) The Comic Busybody from Greece to Rome""; ""(5) The Careworn Lamb of the Aulularia""; ""(6) Curiosity and the Impulse to Research""; ""(7) Cicero on Being Curiosus""; ""(8) Translating Polypragmosyne and the Interventionist State"" ; ""(9) The Curiosi of Catullus, Horace, and Martial""""(10) Polypragmones, Periergoi, and Curiosi in the Ancient Novel""; ""(11) Conclusion""; ""3. Polypragmosyne and Empire""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Apodemia and the Pursuit of Wisdom""; ""(3) Polybius, Odysseus, and the Pursuit of Learning""; ""(4) Arrian on Alexander and the Gymnosophists""; ""(5) Diodorus Siculus and Imperial Polypragmosyne""; ""(6) Strabo, Pliny, and Imperial Geography""; ""(7) Imperial Geography and the Personality of the Emperor""; ""(8) The Emperor as Explorer and Polypragmon"" ; ""(9) Caesar at Vesontioâ€?Cassius Dio and Thucydides""""(10) Conclusion""; ""4. Polypragmosyne and the Divine""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Impious and Fatal Curiosity""; ""(3) Apuleius on the Perils and Pleasures of Curiosity""; ""(4) Polypragmosyne and the Heavens""; ""(5) Conclusion""; ""5. Polypragmosyne, Periergia, and the Language of Criticism""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Periergos, Curiosus, and Literary Style""; ""(3) Polypragmosyne, Periergia, and the Problem of Useless Learning""; ""(4) Platoâ€?s Lovers and the Problem of Polymatheia"" ; ""(5) Cicero, Seneca, and Polybius on Useful and Useless Learning""""(6) Varro, Archelaus, and the Curiosity of the Paradoxographer""; ""(7) Antigonus and the Aesthetic of the Paradoxographer""; ""(8) Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious meddlesome, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on a family of Greek terms, and the Latin words used to describe them, Leigh surveys how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC and their Latin usage in relation to Hellenistic and imperial Greek.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Polypragmon to curiosus
• ISBN: 1-299-47611-2; 0-19-164568-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204037003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno