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

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 beli...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 185
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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)
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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.