Resemblance and reality in Greek thought: essays in honor of Peter M. Smith

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith- Front Cover......Page 1
Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith......Page 2
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Paideia......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
List of figures......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Resemblance and reality as interpretive lens......Page 18
References......Page 25
PART I: Greek poetry: Verbal resemblance as incomplete reality......Page 26
Chapter 1: Mētis on a mission: Unreliable narration and the perils of cunning in Odyssey 9......Page 28
Notes......Page 43
References......Page 46
Chapter 2: Little things mean a lot: Odysseus’ scar and Eurycleia’s memory......Page 48
Notes......Page 60
References......Page 61
Chapter 3: Failure of the textual relation: Anacreon’s purple ball poem (PMG 358)......Page 63
The setting......Page 65
The poem......Page 66
Notes......Page 75
References......Page 77
Chapter 4: Reality, illusion, or both? Cloud-women in Stesichorus and Pindar......Page 82
Notes......Page 93
References......Page 95
Chapter 5: Neither beast nor woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus......Page 97
Rhea’s birth-bed......Page 98
Callisto in a catalog......Page 100
Rhea’s bath......Page 103
Tensions resolved......Page 104
Notes......Page 106
References......Page 109
PART II: Greek tragedy: Reality, expectation, tradition......Page 112
Chapter 6: Necessity and universal reality: The use of χρή in Aeschylus......Page 114
ΧΡΗ: Universal, divinely sanctioned reality......Page 115
Clytemnestra and χρή......Page 119
Χρή in the Prometheus Bound: An alternate tradition......Page 123
Notes......Page 129
References......Page 131
Appendix......Page 132
Chapter 7: The arms of Achilles: Tradition and mythmaking in Sophocles’ Philoctetes......Page 133
Notes......Page 144
References......Page 145
Introduction......Page 147
The house in Heracles......Page 149
Horror and the bad place......Page 153
References......Page 157
The character of the chorus......Page 158
Fitting the crime......Page 160
Anger and agency......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 165
Notes......Page 167
References......Page 169
PART III: Greek prose: Reality and appearances......Page 172
Chapter 10: Stereotypes as faulty resemblance: Humorous deception and ethnography in Herodotus......Page 174
Pisistratus, Phya, and the Athenians (1.59–64)......Page 175
Amasis, the footbath, and the bow (2.172–3)......Page 178
Democedes, Atossa, and Darius (3.129–38)......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 186
Notes......Page 187
References......Page 190
Chapter 11: The rational religion of Xenophon’s Socrates......Page 193
Xenophon’s more conventional Socrates......Page 195
The argument from design (Memorabilia 1.4 and 4.3)......Page 199
Divine law (Memorabilia 4.4)......Page 203
Positive law or natural law?......Page 205
Can the unwritten law conflict with written law?......Page 207
Conclusion......Page 209
Notes......Page 212
References......Page 214
Chapter 12: Wives, subjects, sons, and lovers: Phthonos and resemblance in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia......Page 216
References......Page 226
Performing gender......Page 228
Philosopher-queens......Page 231
Appearance and reality......Page 234
Engendering good: Saving the theory of Forms......Page 240
Performing humanity......Page 243
Deconstructions......Page 245
Transmigrations......Page 248
Acknowledgments......Page 251
Notes......Page 252
References......Page 253
Epilogue: Echoes of resemblance and reality in Latin literature......Page 254
Background of the thigh-wound motif......Page 256
The reality of thigh wounds......Page 258
Thigh wounds in Homeric epic......Page 259
Thigh wounds in Vergil’s Aeneid......Page 265
Notes......Page 268
References......Page 273
General index......Page 276
Index locorum......Page 280