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      Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought
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      Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought

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      Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith

      Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought

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      Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought book

      Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith
      Edited ByArum Park
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 30 September 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666518
      Pages 290
      eBook ISBN 9781315666518
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Park, A. (Ed.). (2016). Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666518

      ABSTRACT

      Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from the time of Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship between verbal art and the social, historical, or cultural reality that produces it, an awareness that this relationship is an approximate one at best and a distorting one at worst. This central theme of resemblance and its relationship to reality draws together essays on a range of Greek authors, and shows how they are unified or allied in posing similar questions to classical literature.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction: Resemblance and reality as interpretive lens

      ByARUM PARK, MARY PENDERGRAFT

      part |2 pages

      PART I Greek poetry: Verbal resemblance as incomplete reality

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Mētis on a mission: Unreliable narration and the perils of cunning in Odyssey 9

      ByPETER AICHER

      chapter 2|15 pages

      Little things mean a lot: Odysseus’ scar and Eurycleia’s memory

      ByJEFFREY BENEKER

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Failure of the textual relation: Anacreon’s purple ball poem (PMG 358)

      ByT.H.M. GELLAR-GOAD

      chapter 4|15 pages

      Reality, illusion, or both? Cloud-women in Stesichorus and Pindar

      Byand Pindar ARUM PARK

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Neither beast nor woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus

      ByKEYNE CHESHIRE

      part |2 pages

      PART II Greek tragedy: Reality, expectation, tradition

      chapter 6|19 pages

      Necessity and universal reality: The use of χρή in Aeschylus

      ByDAVID C.A. WILTSHIRE

      chapter 7|14 pages

      The arms of Achilles: Tradition and mythmaking in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

      BySHEILA MURNAGHAN

      chapter 8|11 pages

      The “Bad Place”: The horrific house of Euripides’ Heracles

      ByDEREK SMITH KEYSER

      chapter 9|14 pages

      The “Hymn to Zeus” (Agamemnon 160–83) and reasoning from resemblances

      ByEDWIN CARAWAN

      part |2 pages

      PART III Greek prose: Reality and appearances

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Stereotypes as faulty resemblance: Humorous deception and ethnography in Herodotus

      ByMARK C. MASH

      chapter 11|23 pages

      The rational religion of Xenophon’s Socrates

      ByDAVID JOHNSON

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Wives, subjects, sons, and lovers: Phthonos and resemblance in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

      ByNORMAN SANDRIDGE

      chapter 13|26 pages

      Performing Plato’s Forms

      ByPATRICK LEE MILLER

      part |2 pages

      Epilogue: Echoes of resemblance and reality in Latin literature

      chapter 14|20 pages

      Thigh wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural reality and literary metaphor

      ByD. FELTON
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