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050 00 $aPA3257$b.K87 2011
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100 1 $aKurke, Leslie.
245 10 $aAesopic conversations :$bpopular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose /$cLeslie Kurke.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2011.
300 $axxi, 495 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aMartin classical lectures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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 --
505 0 $aHistorie 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.
520 $aExamining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. This book explores the anonymous Life of Aesop. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. --from publisher description.
650 0 $aGreek prose literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFables, Greek$xHistory and criticism.
630 00 $aAesop's fables.
600 00 $aAesop$xInfluence.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C.
650 0 $aPopular culture and literature$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C.
650 0 $aLiterary form$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C.
830 0 $aMartin classical lectures (Unnumbered).$nNew series.
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