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Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose
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- Creator
- Leslie Kurke
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- English
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691144573, 9780691144580, 0691144583, 1283088827, 0691144575, 9786613088826, 1400836565, 9781400836567, 9781283088824
- OCLC
- ocn979779787, ocn551196506, ocn721194563, ocn726747833
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-461) and indexes.
- Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition? -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; Mimesis and the invention of philosophy; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: some soundings : Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers
Subjects
- Aesop -- Influence.
- Aesop's fables.
- Greek prose literature -- History and criticism.
- Fables, Greek -- History and criticism.
- Popular culture -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
- Popular culture and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
- Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
- Literature and society -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.