harvard university center for hellenic studies jan 2008 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by 'the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power.' Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of 'discordant harmony' and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of sexual desire. His approach is an untried one for this kind of topic. Drawing on theorists of the sociality of language, Scholtz shows how 'eros,' consuming, destabilizing desire, became a vehicle for exploring and exploiting dissonance within the songs Athenians sang about themselves. Thus he shows how societal tension and instability could register as an ideologically charged polyphony in works like the 'Periclean Funeral Oration,' Aristophanes' 'Knights,' and Xenophon's 'Symposium.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on the ancient modalities and conceptual filters through which the figure and the songs of Sappho were perceived, this book offers the anthropological and systematic investigation of the pluralities of what ancient discourses defined as the songs of Sappho.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story. 'The Oral Palimpsest' argues that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternative versions in the act of producing the signs of their erasure.In this light, 'Homer' reflects the concerted effort to create a Panhellenic canon of epic song, through which we can still retrieve the poikilia (roughly, 'dappled, embroidered variation') of various interwoven fabrics belonging to recognizable song-traditions or even older Indo-European strata.