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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
504

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Subjects
Popular culture and literature, Literature and society, Literary form, Aesop's fables, Popular culture, History and criticism, Influence, Greek Fables, Greek prose literature, History, Aesop, Greek literature, history and criticism, Popular culture, europe, Fables, history and criticism, Littérature grecque antique, Prose, Esope, Influence exercée, Culture populaire, Esope. "Fables"
People
Aesop
Places
Greece
Times
To 146 B.C., To 1500

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2010, Princeton University Press
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Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose
2010, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

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
The Aesopic challenge to 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; 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: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Martin classical lectures

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
886/.0109
Library of Congress
PA3257 .K87 2010, PA3257.K87 2010, PA3257 .K87 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
504

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Open Library
OL24098918M
Internet Archive
aesopicconversat0000kurk
ISBN 13
9780691144573, 9780691144580
LCCN
2010006842
OCLC/WorldCat
551196506

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