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Ancient Greek Lists

Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

Gebonden Engels 2021 9781108841139
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Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.

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ISBN13:9781108841139
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:272

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Introduction. The tally of text; 1. A number of things: Homeric catalogue, numerical authority, and the uncountable; 2. 'Or such a woman as…': gender and exchange in the Hesiodic catalogue; 3. Displaying the past: inquiry as inventory in Herodotus; 4. Stone treasuries: the apodeictic inscribed inventory; 5. Citizens who count: Aristophanes' documentary poetics; 6. Unified I; 7. Conclusion and epilogue: the materialization of lists; Appendix of images.

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