In the Mists of Time : Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature : Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengakos

by: Montanari, F. Papanhelis, Th.D. Zimmermann, B. Sistakou, E.

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In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature

Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengakos

Edited by: Franco Montanari , Theodore Papanghelis , Bernhard Zimmermann and Evanthia Sistakou

About this book
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.

Author / Editor information
Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy; Theodore D. Papanghelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Bernhard Zimmermann, University of Freiburg, Germany; Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Frontmatter

Preface

Franco Montanari, Theodore D. Papanghelis, Bernhard Zimmermann and Evina Sistakou
Contents

Antonios Rengakos: κριτικῶν τε ἀριδείκετος πρηκτήρ τε ἔργων ἄριστος

Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publications by Antonios Rengakos

List of Figures

Part I: Poetry
Shifting Paradigms: Peleus in the Iliad

Irene J.F. de Jong
Competitive Suffering in Odyssey 14 and Iliad 24

Ruth Scodel
The Fatal Combat (Iliad 7.206–312), the Sick Frenzy of Ajax (Soph. Αjαx 59), and a Relevant Addendum

Michalis A. Tiverios
Points of Departure: Toward a New Retelling. Hellenistic Poetry and the ?Invention? of the New

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Anachronism, Prophecy, and Local History in the Mists of Time

Simon Hornblower
Nonnus, Amymone, and the Poetics of Hydrology

Tim Whitmarsh
The Gods in Early Modern Historical Epics on the Spanish Armada: Christopher Ocland?s Elizabetheis (1589) and Thomas Campion?s Ad Thamesin (1595)

Gesine Manuwald
Part II: History
After Alexander: Plutarch on Being a Successor

Christopher Pelling
Not So Ancient History: Paris, Antony and Allegory in Horace Odes 1.15 and 3.3

Stephen Harrison
Romulus: A Transtextual Figure between Myth and History

Therese Fuhrer
Part III: Philosophy
Prehistory in Plato?s Laws, with Apologies to Democritus

David Konstan
How to Construct a Remote Imaginary Past: Primeval Athens in Plato?s Timaeus and Critias

H.-G. Nesselrath
Need as a Category of Ancient Economic Thought

Sabine Föllinger
A True Philosopher: Dogs in the Eyes of Socrates and His Colleagues

Georg Wöhrle
Part IV: Scholarship
Scholars, Antiquarians, Historians, and More: Towards a New Solution for an Old Problem

Franco Montanari
Did Aristarchus Have a Sense of Humour?

Richard Hunter
More Heads for Ap. Rh. fr. 13 Michaelis (v.l. κεφαλάς in Hom. Il. 1.3)

Fausto Montana
Bringing Light into the Darkness of the Past: Some Remarks on the Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike

Bernhard Zimmermann
List of Contributors

Index

In the Mists of Time : Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature : Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengakos

by: Montanari, F. Papanhelis, Th.D. Zimmermann, B. Sistakou, E.

• ISBN-13: 9783111500638 / 978-3-11-150063-8
• ISBN-03: 3111500632 / 3-11-150063-2
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024

Price: 116,55 EURO

1 copy in stock