Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Originality and Intentionality -- 'A Thousand Shapes of Death': Heroic Immortality in the Iliad -- Is Hector androphonos? -- Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod -- Sappho's Circumstances -- Sappho and Acheron -- Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- Pindar's Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations -- ??? ???????: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 -- Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus' Idyll 2 -- Drama -- O suitably - attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy -- Attossa's Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus -- A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus' Source -- Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephori -- Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles' Ajax -- On the 'Eye' and the 'Phallos' and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context -- A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes -- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides' Hippolytus -- Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The 'Demeter Ode' in Euripides' Helen -- Iphigeneia in Love -- Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae -- 'Let Them Eat Cakes' - Three Food Notes to Aristophanes' Peace -- Boy Actors in New Comedy -- Optatives of Consent and Refusal -- Society and History -- Hero Cult in the 'Age of Homer' and Earlier -- The Athenian Law against Hybris -- Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher -- Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I -- Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2.65.12 -- The Arche of Thucydides' War -- Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis -- Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates -- Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas -- A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia -- Philosophy -- 'Nothing' as 'Not-Being': Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato -- Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of t [...] Wydawnictwo: De Gruyter Rok wydania: 1990 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 472 Wymiary: 23.6 x 16 x 3.1 cm Ilustracje: 1 Frontispiece. 7 plates Język: angielski ISBN: 9783110077988