The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece

ISBN-13: 9781472479112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 206 str.

Stamatia Dova

Opis

Through close readings of epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece engages into a thorough discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and collective experience.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Odysseus' failure and the opening of our Odyssey;  2. Theseus, Peirithoos, and the poetics of a failed katabasis;  3. Herakles and the limits of sanity;  4. Whose fault is it?;  5. Achilles, Melikertes, and the perils of immersion;  6. Who wants Tithonos' Immortality?;  7. On heroes and athletes in Homer;  8. Winner takes all;  9. Neither silver nor bronze;  10. Collective aposiōpēsis and the failure of the Ionian revolt

O autorze

Stamatia Dova is Professor of Classics at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, Massachusetts and Associate in Hellenic Language and Literature at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. Her publications include Greek Heroes in and out of Hades (Lexington Books, 2012).