LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature: In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki

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LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature

In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki

Edited by: Myrto Aloumpi and Antony Augoustakis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 166 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.

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Myrto Aloumpi, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Urbana, IL, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον Myrto Aloumpi and Antony Augoustakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
Three Homeric Puzzles Jenny Strauss Clay and Daniel Mendelsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again Claude Calame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited Peter Agócs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG Dimos Spatharas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 Richard Rawles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Singing into Being David Fearn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 Richard P. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar Gregory Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus Thomas Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
How Real is Sympotic Prayer? Ewen Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) Bruno Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) Nicholas Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 Sophia Papaioannou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus Tim Whitmarsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum Mary Whitby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Part II: Greek Drama
The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device Dimitris Ε. Perodaskalakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress Eirene Visvardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache Athena Kavoulaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache Katerina Ladianou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Happy Citizens in Euripides Eleni Papadogiannaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
“What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes Georgia Nugent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Part III: Greek Prose
Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature Andromache Karanika Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece Konstantinos Kapparis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias Ifigeneia Giannadaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others Kostas Apostolakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	493
A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) Melina Tamiolaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509
The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach Chara Kokkiou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	521
“Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia Zacharoula Petraki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	539
“Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς Georgia Tsouni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis Eva Astyrakaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	577
Polybian Temporalities John Marincola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch Christopher Pelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	611
Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch Maria Vamvouri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	627
Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic Orestis Karavas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	647
What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian Anastasios Nikolaidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	661
A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee Nikos Litinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	671
Part IV: Latin Literature
The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina Stavros Frangoulidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	709
Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	727
The Poetics of the Roman Triumph John F. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	745
Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic Vassiliki Panoussi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	763
The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 Costas Panayotakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	779
Epilogue
An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society Frances B. Titchener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	797
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	799
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	807

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eBook published on:

October 21, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111448282

Hardcover published on:

October 21, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111447681

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

15

Main content:

812

Illustrations:

6

Coloured Illustrations:

7

Tables:

1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111448282

eBook ISBN: 9783111448282

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111447681

Keywords for this book

Greek Epic; Greek Lyric; Greek Drama; Greek Prose

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Scholars and students of Greek and Latin literature

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