Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. Martin Classical Lectures.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Guter Allgemeinzustand, Einband stellenweise besto�n (Ecken) / Good overall condition, binding partially scuffed (edges). - CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations introduction I. An Elusive Quarry: In Search of Ancient Greek Popular Culture II. Explaining the Joke: A Road Map for Classicists III. Synopsis of Method and Structure of Argument PART I: Competitive Wisdom and Popular Culture CHAPTER 1 Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority I. Ideological Tensions at Delphi II. The Aesopic Critique III. Neoptolemus and Aesop: Sacrifice, Hero Cult, and Competitive Scapegoating CHAPTER 2 Sophia before/beyond Philosophy I. The Tradition o/Sophia II. Sophists and (as) Sages III. Aristotle and the Transformation of Sophia CHAPTER 3 Aesop as Sage: Political Counsel and Discursive Practice I. Aesop among the Sages II. Political Animals: Fable and the Scene of Advising CHAPTER 4 Reading the Life: The Progress of a Sage and the Anthropology of Sophia I. An Aesopic Anthropology of Wisdom II. Aesop and Ahiqar III. Delphic Thedria and the Death of a Sage IV. The Bricoleur as Culture Hero, or the Art of Extorting Self-Incrimination CHAPTER 5 The Aesopic Parody of High Wisdom I. Demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the Seven Sages II. Aesopic Parody in the Visual Tradition? PART II: Aesop and the Invention of Greek Prose CHAPTER 6 Aesop at the Invention of Philosophy Prelude to Part II: The Problematic Sociopolitics of Mimetic Prose I. Mimesis and the Invention of Philosophy II. The Generic Affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi , CHAPTER 7 The Battle over Prose: Fable in Sophistic Education and Xenophon�s Memorabilia I. Sophistic Fables II. Traditional Fable Narration in Xenophons Memorabilia CHAPTER 8 Sophistic Fable in Plato: Parody, Appropriation, and Transcendence I. Platos Protagoras: Debunking Sophistic Fable II. Plato's Symposium: Ringing the Changes on Fable CHAPTER 9 Aesop in Platos Sokratikoi Logoi: Analogy, Elenchos, and Disavowal I. Sophia into Philosophy: Socrates between the Sages and Aesop II. The Aesopic Bricoleur and the �Old Socratic Tool-Box� III. Sympotic Wisdom, Comedy, and Aesopic Competition in Hippias Major CHAPTER 10 Historic and Logopoiia: Two Sides of Herodotean Prose I. History before Prose, Prose before History II. Aesop Ho Logopoios III. Plutarch Reading Herodotus: Aesop, Ruptures of Decorum, and the Non-Greek CHAPTER 11 Herodotus and Aesop: Some Soundings I. Cyrus Tells a Fable II. Greece and (as) Fable, or Resignifying the Hierarchy of Genre III. Fable as History IV. The Aesopic Contract of the Histories: Herodotus Teaches His Readers. ISBN 9780691144580