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LEADER: 03292nam a22003378a 4500
001 2010006842
003 DLC
005 20100309085501.0
008 100305s2010 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010006842
020 $a9780691144573 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780691144580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPA3257$b.K87 2010
082 00 $a886/.0109$222
100 1 $aKurke, Leslie
245 10 $aAesopic conversations :$bpopular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose /$cLeslie Kurke.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1101
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aMartin classical lectures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- The Aesopic challenge to 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; 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: 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.
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.