Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781108841139
- ISBN10 1108841139
- Type Book
- Pages 272
- Published 2021
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Sections
Greek Literature StudiesAncient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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.