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Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose

Leslie Kurke
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • ABBREVIATIONS (page xvii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 2)
  • PART I: Competitive Wisdom and Popular Culture (page 51)
    • CHAPTER 1 Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority (page 53)
    • CHAPTER 2 Sophia before/beyond Philosophy (page 95)
    • CHAPTER 3 Aesop as Sage: Political Counsel and Discursive Practice (page 125)
    • CHAPTER 4 Reading the Life: The Progress of a Sage and the Anthropology of Sophia (page 159)
    • CHAPTER 5 The Aesopic Parody of High Wisdom (page 202)
  • PART II: Aesop and the Invention of Greek Prose (page 239)
    • CHAPTER 6 Aesop at the Invention of Philosophy (page 241)
    • CHAPTER 7 The Battle over Prose: Fable in Sophistic Education and Xenophon's Memorabilia (page 265)
    • CHAPTER 8 Sophistic Fable in Plato: Parody, Appropriation, and Transcendence (page 301)
    • CHAPTER 9 Aesop in Sōkratikoi Logoi: Analogy, Elenchos, and Disavowal (page 325)
    • CHAPTER 10 Historiē and Logopoiïa: Two Sides of Herodotean Prose (page 361)
    • CHAPTER 11 Herodotus and Aesop: Some Soundings (page 398)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 433)
  • INDEX LOCORUM (page 463)
  • GENERAL INDEX (page 478)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PHO 66. 1/2 (Spring-Summer 2012): 178-181 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7834/phoenix.66.1-2.0178
CR 62.1 (Apr. 2012): 30-32 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23270751
AJP 133.1 (Spring 2012): 153-158 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41416322
JHS 132 (2012): 189-190 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41722275
IJCT 18.4 (Dec. 2011): 627-631 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474748
CLJ 108.2 (Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013): 246-248 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.108.2.0246
CW 106.2 (Winter 2013): 298-299 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/classical_world/v106/106.2.goldhill.html
Citable Link
Published: c2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781400836567 (ebook)
  • 9780691144573 (hardcover)
  • 9780691144580 (paper)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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