The Craft of Zeus : Myths of Weaving and Fabric

by: Scheid, J. Svenbro, J.

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Revealing Antiquity 9
The Craft of Zeus
Myths of Weaving and Fabric
John Scheid
Jesper Svenbro
Translated by Carol Volk

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman--an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing--even fabricating--the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought--a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

Introduction
Part 1: Peplos
1. From the Sixteen Women to the Weaver King: Political Weaving in Greece
2. “Investiture,” Peploplloria, Lusus Trniae: Political Weaving in Rome
Part 2: Chlaina
3. Aphrodite Poikilthronos: Epithets, Cloaks,and Lovers
4. The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis: Nuptial Blankets in Rome
Part 3: Textus
5. The Cloak of Phaedrus: The Prehistory of the “Text” in Greek
6. The Birth of an Ideogram: The Metaphor of the Textus in Latin
Appendix A. Note on Biological “Tissue”
Appendix B. Note on Cosmic “Weaving” Notes
Index

The Craft of Zeus : Myths of Weaving and Fabric

by: Scheid, J. Svenbro, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780674005785 / 978-0-674-00578-5
• ISBN-03: 0674005783 / 0-674-00578-3
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996

Price: 34,00 EURO

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