Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis

Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Epic and Lyric......Page 20
1. Claude Calame: The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice......Page 22
Orpheus as Poet-Musician and as Master of Initiation......Page 23
Orpheus and Cosmo-Theogony in Epic Diction......Page 26
Between “Narrative” and “Speech”: Homeric Diction......Page 28
Procedures of Poetic Enunciation......Page 30
Hermeneutic and Initiatory Erudition in an Orphic Commentary......Page 32
Commentary and the Authority of the Poem......Page 33
Interpretative Procedures Reserved for the Initiated......Page 34
Between Physical Principles and Divine Forces......Page 38
The Initiatory Itinerary of a Written Hermeneutic Practice......Page 40
Orpheus and the Authority of Written-Oral Text......Page 43
Bellies and Beggars......Page 46
Gastēr and Thumos......Page 47
Gastēr and Menos......Page 49
Remembering the Gastēr......Page 52
Odysseus and Achilles......Page 56
3. Phillip Mitsis: Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429......Page 60
4. Philippe Rousseau: Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492)......Page 86
5. Christos Tsagalis: Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236)......Page 96
Story Space......Page 98
Embedded Story Space......Page 106
Merging Spaces......Page 112
Intertextual Space......Page 113
The Luwian Wilusiad and Lycian Epic......Page 117
6. Simon Goldhill: Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16......Page 124
7. Daniel Turkeltaub: Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic......Page 138
8. Gregory Nagy: The Meaning of homoios (ὁμοῖος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere......Page 162
9. Pierre Judet de La Combe: Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality......Page 178
10. Thomas Hubbard: Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship......Page 196
Drama......Page 210
1. Vittorio Citti: Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150......Page 212
2. Barbara Goff: Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy......Page 228
3. Oliver Taplin: Echoes from Mount Cithaeron......Page 244
Appendix on Euripides’ Antiope and Eleutherae......Page 256
Odysseus versus Hecuba......Page 258
The Death of Polyxena: a Rhetorical Act......Page 263
The Herald’s Narrative......Page 264
Hecuba Alone......Page 268
5. Froma Zeitlin: The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama......Page 272
6. Andrew L. Ford: “A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen......Page 292
Parodos: Proode and Strophe A (164-178)......Page 294
The Hoopoe’s Song (Birds 209-222)......Page 300
Parodos Antistrophe A: Echo and Responsion (179-190)......Page 303
Anadiplosis and Doubled Speech......Page 306
Introduction......Page 312
The Comic Kolax......Page 313
Aristotle on Kolakeia......Page 317
Philos and Kolax......Page 318
Kolax and Tyrant......Page 320
Kolakeia and Apatē......Page 321
Kolakeia and Hierarchy......Page 323
How Pericles Led the Demos......Page 325
Kolakeia and Democratic Politics: The Athenian Demos as Tyrant......Page 328
Politics as Kolakeia......Page 329
Kolakeia in Knights......Page 331
Slaves as Tyrants......Page 333
Demos as Tyrant and Slave......Page 334
The Language of Kolakeia......Page 336
Aristophanes’ Wasps......Page 339
Philocleon as Archōn and Archōmenos......Page 340
Kolakeia in Wasps......Page 341
Conclusion......Page 344
Appendix: The Vocabulary of Kolakeia......Page 346
Introduction: the Frogs Attempt to Save Athens......Page 348
Who is sitting near Socrates?......Page 349
For Whom Is the Beatitude?......Page 353
Why Nobody Should Sit near Socrates......Page 357
Why One Had Better Sit near Socrates......Page 359
Conclusion: Who Will Save Athens?......Page 365
Introduction......Page 368
Comedy “Goes Political”......Page 370
Censorship and the Case of Cratinus’ Dionysalexandros......Page 372
ἔμφασις and Comedy......Page 375
Allegories of Abuse......Page 379
Conclusion......Page 383
Prose......Page 384
Introduction......Page 386
Imitation in Against the Sophists and the Levels of Training......Page 388
Truth, Justice and the Selection of Models......Page 395
Democritus’ Paradigm......Page 404
Conclusion......Page 408
2. François Hartog: Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary?......Page 410
The Political Context according to Daniel and Polybius......Page 411
What is the Problem in Polybius?......Page 413
What Is the Problem in Daniel?......Page 415
The Question of Succession......Page 418
Bibliography......Page 422
List of Contributors......Page 454
Publications by Pietro Pucci......Page 460
General Index......Page 466