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Myrto Aloumpi et Antony Augoustakis (éd.), LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature. In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki, Berlin-Boston, 2024.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 166
812 pages
ISBN : 9783111447681
169,95 €

This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Myrto Aloumpi and Antony Augoustakis
Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον

Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
Jenny Strauss Clay and Daniel Mendelsohn
Three Homeric Puzzles
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2
Claude Calame
Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again
Peter Agócs
Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited
Dimos Spatharas
Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG
Richard Rawles
Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473
David Fearn
Singing into Being
Richard P. Martin
The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2
Gregory Nagy
Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar
Τhomas Hubbard
The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus
Ewen Bowie
How Real is Sympotic Prayer?
Bruno Currie
Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4)
Nicholas Richardson
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne)
Sophia Papaioannou
Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus' Pastoral
Singing in Nonnus' Dionysiaca 1
Tim Whitmarsh
A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer's phylia through Nonnus
Mary Whitby
Pindar's Poetic Art and George of Pisidia's Bellum Avaricum

Part II: Greek Drama
Dimitris E. Perodaskalakis
The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus' Eumenides as a Dramatic Device
Eirene Visvardi
Torture's Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress
Athena Kavoulaki
Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides' Andromache
Katerina Ladianou
Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides' Andromache
Eleni Papadogiannaki
Happy Citizens in Euripides
Georgia Nugent
“What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles' Philoctetes

Part III: Greek Prose
Andromache Karanika
Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature
Konstantinos Kapparis
The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece
Ifigeneia Giannadaki
Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias
Kostas Apostolakis
On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others
Melina Tamiolaki
A Μissing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4)
Chara Kokkiou
The Construction of Space in Plato's Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach
Zacharoula Petraki
“Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia
Georgia Tsouni
“Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς
Eva Astyrakaki
Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis
John Marincola
Polybian Temporalities
Christopher Pelling
A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch
Maria Vamvouri
Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch
Orestis Karavas
Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic
Anastasios Nikolaidis
What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian
Nikos Litinas
A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee

Part IV: Latin Literature
Stavros Frangoulidis
The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus' Casina
Stephen Harrison
Horace's Roman Odes: A Book within a Book?
John F. Miller
The Poetics of the Roman Triumph
Vassiliki Panoussi
Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic
Costas Panayotakis
The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius' Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1

Epilogue
Frances B. Titchener
An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society
List of Contributors
General Index

Source : De Gruyter