LUX : Studies in Greek and Latin Literature : In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki

by: Aloumpi, M. Augoustakis, A.

LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki
Edited by: Myrto Aloumpi and Antony Augoustakis
Volume 166 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

About this book
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.

Author / Editor information
Myrto Aloumpi, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Urbana, IL, USA.

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον

Myrto Aloumpi and Antony Augoustakis
Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
Three Homeric Puzzles

Jenny Strauss Clay and Daniel Mendelsohn
Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again

Claude Calame
Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited

Peter Agócs
Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG

Dimos Spatharas
Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473

Richard Rawles
Singing into Being

David Fearn
The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2

Richard P. Martin
Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar

Gregory Nagy
The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus

Thomas Hubbard
How Real is Sympotic Prayer?

Ewen Bowie
Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4)

Bruno Currie
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne)

Nicholas Richardson
Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus? Pastoral Singing in Nonnus? Dionysiaca 1

Sophia Papaioannou
A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer?s phylia through Nonnus

Tim Whitmarsh
Pindar?s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia?s Bellum Avaricum

Mary Whitby
Part II: Greek Drama
The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus? Eumenides as a Dramatic Device

Dimitris Ε. Perodaskalakis
Torture?s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress

Eirene Visvardi
Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides? Andromache

Athena Kavoulaki
Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides? Andromache

Katerina Ladianou
Happy Citizens in Euripides

Eleni Papadogiannaki
“What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles? Philoctetes

Georgia Nugent
Part III: Greek Prose
Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature

Andromache Karanika
The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece

Konstantinos Kapparis
Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias

Ifigeneia Giannadaki
On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others

Kostas Apostolakis
A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4)

Melina Tamiolaki
The Construction of Space in Plato?s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach

Chara Kokkiou
“Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia

Zacharoula Petraki
“Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς

Georgia Tsouni
Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis

Eva Astyrakaki
Polybian Temporalities

John Marincola
A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch

Christopher Pelling
Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch

Maria Vamvouri
Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic

Orestis Karavas
What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian

Anastasios Nikolaidis
A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee

Nikos Litinas
Part IV: Latin Literature
The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus? Casina

Stavros Frangoulidis
Horace?s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book?

Stephen Harrison
The Poetics of the Roman Triumph

John F. Miller
Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic

Vassiliki Panoussi
The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius? Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1

Costas Panayotakis
Epilogue
An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society

Frances B. Titchener
List of Contributors

General Index

LUX : Studies in Greek and Latin Literature : In Honor of Lucia Athanassaki

by: Aloumpi, M. Augoustakis, A.

• ISBN-13: 9783111447681 / 978-3-11-144768-1
• ISBN-03: 3111447685 / 3-11-144768-5
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024