An Introduction

by Giulio Colesanti (Editor), Manuela Giordano (Editor)

Overview

Illuminating the ways ancient Greek culture placed different texts at edge of transmission remains a desideratum. Intended as a new hermeneutics to study the whole range of texts that were produced for socially relevant events in ancient Greece and to investigate the dynamics behind their inclusion or exclusion from production, diffusion and transmission, this book offers fresh approaches to ancient Greek literature and cultural history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110390209
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	239
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Giulio Colesanti, Rome, Italy; Manuela Giordano, University of Calabria, Italy.

Table of Contents

Introductory Notes Giulio Colesanti Manuela Giordano 1

Defining the Indefinable: Greek Submerged Literature and Some Problems of Terminology Andrea Ercolani 7

Submerged Literature in an Oral Culture Riccardo Palmisciano 19

The Canon and Its Boundaries Roberto Nicolai 33

Beyond the Canon: Hellenistic Scholars and Their Texts Maria Broggiato 46

The Trojan War Myth: Rhapsodic Canon and Lyric Alternatives Livio Sbardella 61

Local Epics and Epic Cycles: the Anomalous Case of a Submerged Genre Laura Lulli 76

Two Cases of Submerged Monodic Lyric: Sympotic Poetry and Lullabies Giulio Colesanti 90

Dramatic Actions from Archaic Iconographic Sources: the Domain of the Satyrikon Riccardo Palmisciano 107

Comedy outside the Canon: from Ritual Slapstick to Hellenistic Mime Maurizio Sonnino 128

Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy Manuela Giordano 151

By Way of Conclusion Maria Broggiato Giulio Colesanti Andrea Ercolani Manuela Giordano Laura Lulli Michele Napolitano Roberto Nicolai Riccardo Palmisciano Livio Sbardella Maurizio Sonnino 178

Reference List 188

Index Nominum 209

Index Rerum Notabilium 217

Index Locorum 222

Contributors 227