Eris vs. Aemulatio : : valuing competition in classical antiquity / / By Cynthia Damon, Christoph Pieper.

Competition is everywhere in antiquity. It took many forms: the upper class competed with their peers and with historical and mythological predecessors; artists of all kinds emulated generic models and past masterpieces; philosophers and their schools vied with one another to give the best interpret...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 423.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Notes on Contributors / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Introduction / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Eris Reimagined / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Hesiodic Eris and the Market / Ruth Scodel
  • Ambivalence, Critique, Resistance / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Agonistic Excess and Its Ritual Resolution in Hero Cult: the Funeral Games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme / Anton Bierl
  • Certare alterno carmine: the Rise and Fall of Bucolic Competition / Yelena Baraz
  • Stasis, Competition, and the ‘Noble Lie’: Metic Mettle in Plato’s Republic / Geoffrey W. Bakewell
  • Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2 / Inger N.I. Kuin
  • Aristotle’s Poetics and skênikoi agônes / Oliver Taplin
  • Paradoxes and Anxieties of Competition in Hippocratic Medicine / Ralph M. Rosen
  • Multivalence, Displacement, Innovation / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Sleights of Hand: Epigraphic Capping and the Visual Enactment of Eris in Early Greek Epigrams / Deborah Steiner
  • Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal Society / Christopher Siwicki
  • Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome / Seth Bernard
  • Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia / Lewis Webb
  • The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and Ovid / Charles T. Ham
  • Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary Criticism / Casper C. de Jonge
  • Competition and Competitiveness in Pollux’s Onomasticon / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.