Chapter 3. The Anthropology of Ancient Reception: The Late Archaic and Classical Periods ΠΙΚΡΑΓΚΑΘΙἘνεφανίσθη καὶ χάθηκε ἡ δεσποινὶς ποὺ συνήντησα μέσ᾽ στὸ συρτάρι μου. Στὴ θέσι της μιὰ τολύπηκρατεῖ τὸν φώσφορο τῆς ζωοφόρου της. Ἄποικοινέμονται τὶς ἐκτάσεις ποὺ ἐγκατέλειψε […]
Chapter 2. Ethnographic Archives of Vraisemblance in Attic Ceramics κλίνη, ἐάντε ἐκ πλαγίου αὐτὴν θεᾷ ἐάντε καταντικρὺ ἢ ὁπῃοῦν, μή τι διαφέρει αὐτὴ ἑαυτῆς, ἢ διαφέρει μὲν οὐδέν, φαίνεται δὲ ἀλλοία; If you look at a bed from the side or from the front or from any angle, does the […]
Chapter 1. An Anthropology of Reception Δεινὸν γάρ που, ὦ Φαῖδρε, τοῦτ’ ἔχει γραφή, καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς ὅμοιον ζωγραφίᾳ. καὶ γὰρ τὰ ἐκείνης ἔκγονα ἕστηκε μὲν ὡς ζῶντα, ἐὰν δ᾽ ἀνέρῃ τι, σεμνῶς πάνυ σιγᾷ. ταὐτὸν δὲ καὶ οἱ λόγοι. I think, Phaidros, that writing shares a strange feature with painting. […]
Note on Transliteration Transliterating ancient Greek words of different periods—with all the phonetic and other changes that took place from the archaic to the Roman period and later—raises issues about consistency. Our knowledge of the precise pronunciation of ancient Greek consonants, vowels, and diphthongs in different dialects is limited. It is, therefore, […]
Acknowledgments This book began taking shape in 2000 and was completed in June 2003. During the academic year 2003–2004 it was further revised, and I made some final bibliographical additions in January 2005. [1] The original 2003 manuscript was almost twice as large as the present book. This was partly due to […]
Preface I was first introduced to the dialects of Plato and Sappho in the last years of elementary school by an older friend who enjoyed reciting ancient Greek poetry and reading sections from Plato’s Symposion at family gatherings. She taught me their dialects during three long summers in Greece. The work of […]
Illustrations [Due to copyright restrictions, the images included in the print version of this book are not available for reproduction online. Where possible, those images have been replaced by line drawings, open source images, or links to relevant citation information. Captions for replacement images will appear in brackets alongside the original […]
Bibliography Translations All translations of the Iliad are taken from Lattimore 1951, and of the Odyssey from Rieu 2003 (= 1946). For Aristotle I have consulted Halliwell 1995; for Herodotus, Waterfeld 1998; for the Homeric Hymns, West 2003; for Philostratus, Berenson, Maclean, and Aitken 2003 (= 2001); for Proclus, Burgess 2001; […]
Chapter 12. Mapping the Hypertext: Similes in Iliad XXII In spite of the fact that Homeric similes have undergone exhaustive analysis, interest in them has been renewed in recent years, though the focus of research has shifted from studying their classification [1] to exploring their oral function [2] and the way they […]
Chapter 11. Intertextuality and Intratextual Distality: Thetis’ Lament in Iliad XVIII 52–64 Introduction The scene between Thetis and Achilles in Iliad XVIII 35–147 has attracted the interest of scholarly examination since the early analytical studies of Wilamowitz. [1] In line with the analytical approach to epic poetry that dominated 19th and […]