Ancient Greek Lists
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Ancient Greek Lists
Author: Athena Kirk
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2023-03-30
Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.
Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
Author: Paul Christesen
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2007-10-22
This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed.
Ancient Greek Lists
Author: Athena Kirk
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2021-03-11
Pioneering study of the cultural value attached to ancient Greek lists, catalogues, and inventories across literature and epigraphy.