Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Atheniam Literature: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature - Brossura

Scholtz, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0674025989 ISBN 13: 9780674025981

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic, 2008

Riassunto

Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of sexual desire. His approach is an untried one for this kind of topic. Drawing on theorists of the sociality of language, Scholtz shows how eros, consuming, destabilizing desire, became a vehicle for exploring and exploiting dissonance within the songs Athenians sang about themselves. Thus he shows how societal tension and instability could register as an ideologically charged polyphony in works like the Periclean Funeral Oration, Aristophanes' Knights, and Xenophon's Symposium.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Andrew Scholtz is Assistant Professor of Classics, Binghamton University, the State University of New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674025989
• ISBN 13: 9780674025981
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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