Distant companions : : selected papers / / by C.M.J. Sicking.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 185
• Author: Sicking, C. M. J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Mass. : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Dutch
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 185.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

This volume contains fourteen papers on Greek literature, historiography and philosophy. Its titles seeks to bring out the author's intention to explore the consequences of the paradox that goes with interpreting messages that were never meant to be heard by us, but are nevertheless widely believed to be significant to our understanding of our own historical situation: only by conscientiously measuring the distance that separates us from the Greeks may we hope to avoid the risk of conforming them to current standards and beliefs, and of throwing away in the process both the possibility to understand them and the relevance such an understanding may have to our own ideas and prejudices. Two papers on the history of classical scholarship discuss various ways in which classicists have handled this paradox.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Solon On Wealth -- Pindar’s First Olympian -- Oedipus and Tiresias -- Aristotle and Sophocles’ Electra -- Admetus’ Case -- Jason’s Case -- Aristophanes Laetus? -- Pre-platonic, Platonic and Aristotelian Poetics of Imitation -- Plutarch’s Literary Theory -- Pericles’ Funeral Oration And Last Speech as Political Documents -- Aristotle and Herodotus -- Lucian, Cicero and Historiography -- Homo or Philosophus Mensura? -- Plato’s Protagoras: A ‘Battle of Wits’? -- The Classicists’ Nostalgia -- Cobet -- Bibliographical References -- Index Locorum -- Supplements to Mnemosyne by J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers.