Aesopic conversations [[electronic resource] ] : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke
| Aesopic conversations [[electronic resource] ] : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke |
| Autore | Kurke Leslie |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1150 p.) |
| Disciplina | 886/.0109 |
| Collana | Martin classical lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Greek prose literature - History and criticism
Fables, Greek - History and criticism Popular culture - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Popular culture and literature - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Literary form - History - To 1500 Literature and society - Greece - History - To 146 B.C |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-08882-7
9786613088826 1-4008-3656-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465079003321 |
Kurke Leslie
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aesopic conversations [[electronic resource] ] : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke
| Aesopic conversations [[electronic resource] ] : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke |
| Autore | Kurke Leslie |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1150 p.) |
| Disciplina | 886/.0109 |
| Collana | Martin classical lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Greek prose literature - History and criticism
Fables, Greek - History and criticism Popular culture - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Popular culture and literature - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Literary form - History - To 1500 Literature and society - Greece - History - To 146 B.C |
| ISBN |
1-283-08882-7
9786613088826 1-4008-3656-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791982803321 |
Kurke Leslie
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke
| Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / / Leslie Kurke |
| Autore | Kurke Leslie |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1150 p.) |
| Disciplina | 886/.0109 |
| Collana | Martin classical lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Greek prose literature - History and criticism
Fables, Greek - History and criticism Popular culture - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Popular culture and literature - Greece - History - To 146 B.C Literary form - History - To 1500 Literature and society - Greece - History - To 146 B.C |
| ISBN |
9786613088826
9781283088824 1283088827 9781400836567 1400836565 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910970398303321 |
Kurke Leslie
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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