Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Les...
Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Les...
Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Leslie Kurke.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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N886.0109/1
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English
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xxi, 495 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: s...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2011.
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Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. This book explores the anonymous Life of Aesop. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high...
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Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Leslie Kurke.
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Martin classical lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-461) and indexes.
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c2011.
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N886.0109/1
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74Vv3EeDJbgM
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0691144583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691144573 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0691144575 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780691144580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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886.0109
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991009767119702626
