Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Leslie Kurke.

• Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition? -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; Mimesis and the invention of philosophy; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: some soundings : Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.

Ämnesord

Antiken  (sao)

Greek prose literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Fables, Greek  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular culture  -- Greece -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Popular culture and literature  -- Greece -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Literary form  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- Greece -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Popular culture  -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. (LCSH)

Popular culture and literature  -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. (LCSH)

Grekisk prosa  -- historia (sao)

Fabler  -- historia -- Grekland (sao)

littérature grecque antique  -- prose -- Esope -- influence exercée. (rero)

culture populaire  -- Esope. "Fables" -- Grèce antique. (rero)

Personnamn

Aesop -- Influence.

Aisopos, 500-talet f.Kr. -- influenser

Titel

Aesop's fables.

Klassifikation

PA3257 (LCC)

s1gr (ämneskategori)

886.0109 (DDC)

886.0109 (DDC)