Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature

by: Scholtz, A.

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Concordia discors : eros and dialogue in classical Athenian literature

Author:Andrew Scholtz

Summary:"Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of sexual desire. His approach is an untried one for this kind of topic. Drawing on theorists of the sociality of language, Scholtz shows how eros, consuming, destabilizing desire, became a vehicle for exploring and exploiting dissonance within the songs Athenians sang about themselves. Thus he shows how societal tension and instability could register as an ideologically charged polyphony in works like the Periclean Funeral Oration, Aristophanes' Knights, and Xenophon's Symposium.

Series:
Hellenic studies, 24

ix, 174 pages ; 23 cm.

Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................ vii
Abbreviations ...................................................... viii
Chapter One: Introduction......................................... 1
Chapter Two: Lovers of It: Erotic Ambiguity in the Periclean Funeral Oration................... 21
Chapter Three: He Loves You, He Loves You Not: Demophilic Courtship in Aristophanes Knights...................... 43
Chapter Four: Forgive and Forget: Concordia discors in Aristophanes Assemblywomen and Lysistrata ....... 71
Chapter Five: Satyr, Lover, Teacher, Pimp: Socrates and His Many Masks.................................... 111
Chapter Six: Conclusions.......................................... 145
Bibliography .......................................................147
Index ...........................................................165

Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature

by: Scholtz, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780674025981 / 978-0-674-02598-1
• ISBN-03: 0674025989 / 0-674-02598-9
• Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007

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