num_pages: 288
description: A Festschrift in honor of the classical scholar, William J Slater, this volume looks at the social life of theories, artifacts, and poems in ancient Greece. The central focus of the collection is Greek theater, but essays on such typically Slaterian subjects as ancient scholarship, lyric poetry, art, and inscriptions are also included. From a literary search for the elusive Pelasgians, an iconographic analysis of illustrations of Athenian women's religious rituals, to reflections on the revival and politicisation of Greek plays in the modern era, each paper attempts to elucidate the meaning of ancient Greek words, myths, poems, artifacts, theories, and activities by reinserting them into their cultural environment.Table of ContentsPrefaceList of publications by W.J. SlaterSection 1: Myth and Cult1. Pelasgians ( Robert Fowler )2. Art, Myth and Xenophantos' Lekythos rexamined ( Margaret C. Miller )3. Lenaea vases in context ( Richard Hamilton )4. The dolphins of Dionysus ( Eric Csapo )Section Theatre5. The chorus in Greek Satyrplay ( Bernd Seidensticker )6. Hypermestra and Lynkeus ( Erika Simon )7. Hypsipyle and Athens ( Martin Cropp )8. Orestes the Ephebe ( John R. Porter )9. Speculations on the tragic poet Sthenelus and a comic vase in Richmond ( J. Richard Green )10. Up-staging Greek the use (and abuse) of genre? ( Robert Garland )Section The Written Word11. Literate and wealthy women in archaic the case of the 'Telesstas Hydria' ( Matthias Steinhart )12. The topic of envy and emulation in an agonistic inscription from Oenoanda ( Matthew W. Dickie )13. Aeso's encounter with Isis and the Muses, and the origins of the Life of Aesop ( Noel Robertson )
language: English
title: Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Essays in Honour of William J. Slater
titlecomplete: Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Essays in Honour of William J. Slater
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Oxbow Books