Description |
1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Tally of Text -- 1 A Number of Things: Homeric Catalogue, Numerical Authority, and the Uncountable -- 2 "Or Such a Woman as ... ": Exchange Value in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women -- 3 Displaying the Past: Inquiry as Inventory in Herodotus -- 4 Stone Treasuries: The Apodeictic Inscribed Inventory -- 5 Citizens Who Count: Aristophanes' Documentary Poetics |
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6 Unified Infinities, Catalogic Chronotopes: Disordering Lists in Early Hellenistic Poetry -- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue: The Materialization of Lists -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
Summary |
Pioneering study of the cultural value attached to ancient Greek lists, catalogues, and inventories across literature and epigraphy |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 31, 2021) |
Subject |
Lists.
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Cataloging -- Greece -- Sources
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Classical literature -- Catalogs
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rosters.
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seat rails.
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Cataloging
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Civilization
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Classical literature
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Lists
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SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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Subject |
Greece
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Genre/Form |
Catalogs
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781108887397 |
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1108887392 |
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9781108897471 |
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1108897479 |
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