Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Atheniam Literature - Couverture souple

Scholtz, Andrew

 
9780674025981: Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Atheniam Literature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0674025989 ISBN 13 : 9780674025981
Editeur : Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Scholtz is Assistant Professor of Classics, Binghamton University.

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Éditeur
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674025989
ISBN 13 
9780674025981
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
174
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