Exemplum and Myth, Criticism and Creation : Papers on Early Greek Literature

by Howie, J. G.

• ISBN13: 9780905205540
• ISBN10: 0905205545
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

These papers, composed over a period of nearly thirty years, starting in the mid-1970s, are collected in this volume with a new chapter, other additional material, a combined bibliography, and full indexes. Book jacket.

Author Biography

J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in the homeric epics and early Greek lyric, and reveal the impact of those patterns on Attic drama and historical writing. A focal figure in this process, and throughout Howie's papers, is Pindar, who transmitted his poetic past while transforming it in ways that made it acceptable to fifth-century Athenian culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Editorial Note	p. viii
Introduction	p. xi
Myth, Aetiology, Hymn, and Prayer
Greek Polytheism	p. 1
Apollo's Dealings with Chiron and Croesus: Ambiguity and Hymnic Predication in Hesiod's Theogony, Pindar's 9th Pythian, and Herodotus 1	p. 21
The Alcestis of Euripides considered as an Aetiological Myth	p. 49
Homer
The Iliad as Exemplum	p. 62
The Phaeacians in the Odyssey: Fable and Territorial Claim	p. 90
Sappho in the Light of Pindar and Menander Rhetor
Sappho Fr. 16 (LP): Self-Consolation and Encomium	p. 102
Sappho Fr. 94 (LP): Farewell, Consolation, and Help in a New Life	p. 126
Creative Myth-Revision: Pindar's Olympian	p. 1
The Revision of Myth in Pindar Olympian 1: The Death and Revival of Pelops (25-27; 36-66)	p. 161
Pindar's Account of Pelops' Contest with Oenomaus (with a translation of Olympian 1)	p. 191
Illustrations	p. 239
Appendix: Reconsideration of the Role of Female Helper or Inciter	p. 255
Thucydides (and Xenophon) and Earlier Poetry:
Thucydides and Pindar: The Archaeology and Nemean 7	p. 265
The Aristeia of Brasidas: Thucydides' Presentation of Events at Pylos and Amphipolis	p. 307
The Major Aristeia in Homer and Xenophon	p. 369
Addendum to Chapter 9
The "Mighty Missiles" in Olympian 1.111-12	p. 386
Bibliography	p. 401
Index of Selected Passages	p. 425
Index of Ancient Personal Names	p. 434
Index of Subjects	p. 441
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