Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. / [Volume 1], : An Introduction / / ed. by Giulio Colesanti, Manuela Giordano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Broggiato, Maria,; Colesanti, Giulio,; Ercolani, Andrea,; Giordano, Manuela,; Lulli, Laura,; Napolitano, Michele,; Nicolai, Roberto,; Palmisciano, Riccardo,; Sbardella, Livio,; Sonnino, Maurizio,
• TeilnehmendeR: Broggiato, Maria.; Ercolani, Andrea.; Lulli, Laura.; Napolitano, Michele.; Nicolai, Roberto.; Palmiciano, Riccardo.; Sbardella, Livio.; Sonnino, Maurizio.
• HerausgeberIn: Colesanti, Giulio,; Giordano, Manuela,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture ; [Volume 1]
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introductory Notes --; Defining the Indefinable: Greek Submerged Literature and Some Problems of Terminology --; Submerged Literature in an Oral Culture --; The Canon and Its Boundaries --; Beyond the Canon: Hellenistic Scholars and Their Texts --; The Trojan War Myth: Rhapsodic Canon and Lyric Alternatives --; Local Epics and Epic Cycles: the Anomalous Case of a Submerged Genre --; Two Cases of Submerged Monodic Lyric: Sympotic Poetry and Lullabies --; Dramatic Actions from Archaic Iconographic Sources: the Domain of the Satyrikon --; Comedy outside the Canon: from Ritual Slapstick to Hellenistic Mime --; Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy --; By Way of Conclusion --; Reference List --; Index Nominum --; Index Rerum Notabilium --; Index Locorum --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110334081; 9783110621099; 9783110238570; 9783110636178; 9783110369618; 9783110369526
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110334081
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Giulio Colesanti, Manuela Giordano.

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contributed to the configuration and articulation of ancient Greek culture as we know it. In particular, the hermeneutic tool of submerged literature may shed new light on the dynamics behind the 'emersion' or 'submersion' of certain texts during different periods. The category of submerged literature is extended here to include preserved and lost texts as well as those texts that can be reconstructed through investigation. The volume investigates the manifold speech acts that we know of through various sources and that, either from the outset or over the course of time, have been placed at the edge of diffusion, conservation and transmission. The essays contained in the volume deal with questions of hermeneutics, philology and methodology, as well as with epic cycles, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, satyr drama, and mime. By approaching these genres from the perspective of submerged literature, the book tries to provide a more precise contextualization of the texts within the communication system of ancient Greece. The book thus presents a new line of research and a series of studies that take a fresh look at the texts and all archaeological and iconographic sources relating to Greek culture, taking into account the results of ethnographic and anthropological research. This extensive investigation examines unique ancient Greek orality and literacy dynamics using a new hermeneutic frame that will hopefully reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture.