UID:
almafu_9960118952102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-89747-9
,
1-108-88739-2
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Tally of Text -- 1 A Number of Things: Homeric Catalogue, Numerical Authority, and the Uncountable -- 2 "Or Such a Woman as...": Exchange Value in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women -- 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 Infinities, Catalogic Chronotopes: Disordering Lists in Early Hellenistic Poetry -- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue: The Materialization of Lists -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-84113-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108887397
