Poetry, theory, praxis
Subtitle: the social life of myth, word and image in ancient Greece : essays in honour of William J. Slater
By: edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret C. Miller.
Contributors: Csapo, Eric.; Miller, Margaret Christina.
Publisher: Oxbow; Oxbow Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Slater, William J.; Greek literature -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Greece -- History.; Theater -- Greece -- History.; Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Festschrift for William J. Slater.
Table of contents: title: Pelasgians / Robert Fowler; title: Art, myth and reality : Xenophantos' Lekythos / Margaret C. Miller; title: Lenaea vases in context / Richard Hamilton; title: The dolphins of Dionysus / Eric Csapo; title: The chorus in Greek satyrplay / Bernd Seidensticker; title: Hypermestra and Lynkeus / Erika Simon; title: Hypsipyle and Athens / Martin Cropp; title: Orestes the Ephebe / John R. Porter; title: Speculations on the tragic poet Sthenelus and a comic vase in Richmond / J. Richard Green; title: Up-staging Greek tragedy : the use (and abuse) of genre? / Robert Garland; title: Literate and wealthy women in archaic Greece : the case of the "Telesstas Hydria" / Matthias Steinhart; title: The topic of envy and emulation in an Agnostic inscription from Oenoanda / Matthew W. Dickie; title: Aesop's encounter with Isis and the Muses, and the origins of the Life of Aesop / Noel Robertson.