Compitum

Franco Montanari, Theodore Papanghelis, Bernhard Zimmermann et Evanthia Sistakou (éd.), In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature. Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengak, Berlin-Boston, 2024.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
281 pages
ISBN : 9783111500638
109,95 €

The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The eighteen contributions illustrate how the ancients addressed the past through poetry, history and philosophy and lend insight into the metaliterary, self-reflexive way of dealing with past texts through scholarship.

Contents

Preface
Theodore D. Papanghelis
Antonios Rengakos: κριτικῶν τε ἀριδείκετος πρηκτήρ τε ἔργων ἄριστος
Publications by Antonios Rengakos
List of Figures

Part I: Poetry
Irene J.F. de Jong
Shifting Paradigms: Peleus in the Iliad
Ruth Scodel
Competitive Suffering in Odyssey 14 and Iliad 24
Michalis A. Tiverios
The Fatal Combat (Iliad 7.206–312), the Sick Frenzy of Ajax (Soph. Αjαx 59), and a Relevant Addendum
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Points of Departure: Toward a New Retelling. Hellenistic Poetry and the ‘Invention' of the New
Simon Hornblower
Anachronism, Prophecy, and Local History in the Mists of Time
Tim Whitmarsh
Nonnus, Amymone, and the Poetics of Hydrology
Gesine Manuwald
The Gods in Early Modern Historical Epics on the Spanish Armada: Christopher Ocland's Elizabetheis (1589) and Thomas Campion's Ad Thamesin (1595)

Part II: History
Christopher Pelling
After Alexander: Plutarch on Being a Successor
Stephen Harrison
Not So Ancient History: Paris, Antony and Allegory in Horace Odes 1.15 and 3.3
Therese Fuhrer
Romulus: A Transtextual Figure between Myth and History

Part III: Philosophy
David Konstan
Prehistory in Plato's Laws, with Apologies to Democritus
H.-G. Nesselrath
How to Construct a Remote Imaginary Past: Primeval Athens in Plato's Timaeus and Critias
Sabine Föllinger
Need as a Category of Ancient Economic Thought
Georg Wöhrle
A True Philosopher: Dogs in the Eyes of Socrates and His Colleagues

Part IV: Scholarship
Franco Montanari
Scholars, Antiquarians, Historians, and More: Towards a New Solution for an Old Problem
Richard Hunter
Did Aristarchus Have a Sense of Humour?
Fausto Montana
More Heads for Ap. Rh. fr. 13 Michaelis (v.l. κεφαλάς in Hom. Il. 1.3)
Bernhard Zimmermann
Bringing Light into the Darkness of the Past: Some Remarks on the Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike

List of Contributors
Index

Source : De Gruyter