Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith [Hardcover]

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from the time of Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship between verbal art and the social, historical, or cultural reality that produces it, an awareness that this relationship is an approximate one at best and a distorting one at worst. This central theme of resemblance and its relationship to reality draws together essays on a range of Greek authors, and shows how they are unified or allied in posing similar questions to classical literature.

Contents

By Sue Guiney

Contributors

Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens

By Arum Park and Mary Pendergraft

Chapter 1: Mtis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of Cunning in Odyssey 9

By Peter Aicher

Chapter 2: Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus Scar and Eurycleias Memory

By Jeffrey Beneker

Chapter 3: Failure of the Textual Relation: Anacreons Purple Ball Poem (PMG 358)

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Chapter 4: Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar.

By Arum Park

Chapter 5: Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus Hymn to Zeus

By Keyl3&