Arktouros : : Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday / / ed. by Glen W. Bowersock, Michael Putnam, Walter Burkert.

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• MitwirkendeR: BALCER, JACK MARTIN,; BLUMENTHAL, HENRY J.,; BOEDEKER, DEBORAH D.,; BROWN, EDWIN L.,; BROWNE, GERALD Μ.,; BURKERT, WALTER,; CLAY, DISKIN,; COMMAGER, STEELE,; CONNOR, W. ROBERT,; DREW-BEAR, THOMAS,; DWORACKI, SYLWESTER,; DÖNT, EUGEN,; FINLEY, JOHN Η.,; FISHER, ELIZABETH ANN,; FOGELMARK, STAFFAN,; FORTENBAUGH, WILLIAM W.,; GAGARIN, MICHAEL,; GRIFFITHS, FREDERICK Τ.,; GÖRLER, WOLDEMAR,; HAMILTON, CHARLES D.,; HARVEY, DAVID,; HASLAM, MICHAEL W.,; HUBERT, MARTIN,; HUNTER, R . RAWLINGS III,; KYTZLER, BERNHARD,; LATTIMORE, RICHMOND,; LAWALL, GILBERT,; MATTHIESSEN, KJELD,; MCCALL, MARSH Η.,; MEJER, JØRGEN,; MOURELATOS, ALEXANDER P. D.,; OLIVER, JAMES Η.,; PERADOTTO, JOHN,; PRICE, THEODORA HADZISTELIOU,; PUCCI, PlETRO,; RAAFLAUB, KURT,; RECKFORD, KENNETH J.,; ROBINSON, DAVID Β.,; ROWE, CHRISTOPHER J.,; RUBINO, CARL A.,; SCHNEEWEISS, GERHART,; SEGAL, CHARLES P.,; SEIDENSTICKER, BERND,; SIEWERT, PETER,; SIFAKIS, GREGORY Μ.,; SLATER, WILLIAM J.,; SMITH, WESLEY D.,; STOKES, MICHAEL C.,; SZLEZÁK, THOMAS ALEXANDER,; TAPLIN, OLIVER,; TIGNER, STEVEN S.,; WHALLON, WILLIAM,; WOLFF, CHRISTIAN,; WRIGHT, ROSEMARY,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowersock, Glen W.,; Burkert, Walter,; Putnam, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.) :; 1 Frontispiece. 7 plates

Table of Contents

I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Originality and Intentionality -- “A Thousand Shapes of Death”: Heroic Immortality in the Iliad -- Is Hector androphonos? -- Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod -- Sappho’s Circumstances -- Sappho and Acheron -- Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- Pindar’s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations -- καὶ κείνοις: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 -- Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 -- Drama -- O suitably – attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy -- Attossa’s Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus -- A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus’ Source -- Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus’ Choephori -- Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles’ Ajax -- On the ‘Eye’ and the ‘Phallos’ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context -- A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes -- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides’ Hippolytus -- Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The ‘Demeter Ode’ in Euripides’ Helen -- Iphigeneia in Love -- Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae -- “Let Them Eat Cakes” – Three Food Notes to Aristophanes’ Peace -- Boy Actors in New Comedy -- Optatives of Consent and Refusal -- Society and History -- Hero Cult in the ‘Age of Homer’ and Earlier -- The Athenian Law against Hybris -- Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher -- Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I -- Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2.65.12 -- The Arche of Thucydides’ War -- Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis -- Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates -- Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas -- A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia -- Philosophy -- “Nothing” as “Not-Being”: Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato -- Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras’ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution -- Justice and Temperance in Republic IV -- Socrates’ Prayer to Pan -- The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato’s Seventh Letter -- How Credible are Plato’s Myths? -- Theophrastus on Fate and Character -- History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch’s Lycurgus -- Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D -- Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle? -- Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia -- Aftermath -- Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace’s Satires -- Horaz II 13 -- Seneca’s Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization -- Kaltblütiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jüngeren Plinius -- A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi -- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians -- Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478–1978) -- Plates -- List of Plates -- 470-472