Ancient Greek Lists

ISBN-13: 9781108744959 / Miękka / 2023 / 263 str.

New York) Kirk Athena (Cornell University

Opis

Pioneering study of the cultural value attached to ancient Greek lists, catalogues, and inventories across literature and epigraphy.

Spis treści

Introduction. The tally of text; 1. A number of things: Homeric catalogue, numerical authority, and the uncountable; 2. 'Or such a woman as…': gender and exchange in the Hesiodic catalogue; 3. Displaying the past: inquiry as inventory in Herodotus; 4. Stone treasuries: the apodeictic inscribed inventory; 5. Citizens who count: Aristophanes' documentary poetics; 6. Unified I; 7. Conclusion and epilogue: the materialization of lists; Appendix of images.