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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture
:
Volume 3, The comparative perspective
Contains:
Frontmatter -- -- Acknowledgements -- -- Contents -- -- Introduction -- -- The Resurrection of the Divine Assembly and the Divine Title El in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- -- Out of the Mainstream -- -- The Submersion of Mythography -- -- The Emergence of Athens: Constructing Identity in the Age of Cimon -- -- The Purification of Orestes at Troezen: A Case of Submersion between Ancient and Modern -- -- Literacy and Orality in the Attic Orators -- -- With Pausanias (and Others) in the Agora of Sparta -- -- Beyond the Boundary of the Poetic Language: Enigmas and Riddles in Greek and Roman Culture -- -- Cantare cantilenae: (Semi-)Submerged Practices and Texts -- -- Modes of Scriptural and Personal Authority in Late Antique Religion -- -- Gnosticism and Radical Feminism: From Pathologizing Submersion to Salvaging Re-emergence -- -- Submerged Literature in China -- -- Mapping Submerged Territories: Preliminary Observations on the Category of ‘Submerged Literature’ in Arabic Literature -- -- Cultural Continuities: Places, Cults, and Memories of Waters -- -- Index Nominum -- -- Index Locorum -- -- Index Rerum Notabilium -- -- Contributors
Description:
The book is the third and concluding part of the investigation on Submerged literature in ancient Greece and beyond.The book expands the inquiry to a comparative perspective, in order to test the validity and usefulness of the hermeneutical approach in other fields and cultures. The comparative case studies deal with gnostic text, Qumran texts, the Hebrew Bible, Early Christianity, Cuneiform Texts, Arabic-Islamic literature, ancient Rome, Medieval China, and contemporary southern Italy. The volume tackles themes and questions relating to author and authorship, cultural translation and transmission, the interaction between orality and literacy, myth and folktale. A particular emphasis is given to anthropological themes and methods. In this vein, the book further explores dynamics of emergence and submersion in ancient Greece, including cultural trends promoted respectively by Sparta and Athens.The volume provides the reader with a wide range of tools and methodological suggestions to reconstruct literary phenomena and cultural processes in a given historical epoch and context, as well as offering new insights for both classical and comparative studies