Title Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture / Reviel Netz

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 890 pages) Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- Part I Canon -- Chapter 1 Canon: The Evidence -- 1.1 Data from the Papyri -- 1.2 The Significance of the Data from the Papyri -- 1.2.1 General Remarks -- 1.2.2 Spatial Homogeneity inside Egypt -- 1.2.3 Chronology and Continuity -- 1.2.4 Education and Scholarship, Curation and Discard -- 1.3 Out of Egypt -- 1.3.1 The Internal Evidence of the Papyri -- 1.3.2 The TLG Evidence -- 1.3.3 The Evidence of the Portraits 1.3.4 The Codices and the Big Library -- 1.4 Adjusting the Sample -- 1.4.1 Bringing in the Adespota -- 1.4.2 Considerations of Sample Bias -- 1.5 The Ancient Greek Canon: Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Canon in Practice: The Polis of Letters -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Setting the Questions ... -- 2.1.2 ... And Theory -- 2.2 The Polis of Letters: Structure -- 2.2.1 Genre/Author/Work: The Works beneath the Author -- 2.2.2 Genre/Author/Work: The Genre above the Author -- 2.2.3 The Topology of Ancient Literature -- 2.2.4 The Polis of Letters -- 2.3 The Polis of Letters: History 2.3.1 Becoming an Author: What Did It Take? -- 2.3.2 The Making of the Athenian Canon: Chronological Data -- 2.3.3 The Invention of the Brand in Early Greek Philosophy and Literature -- 2.3.4 The Tyranny of Athens over Greece -- Part II Space -- Chapter 3 Space, the Setting: The Making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean -- 3.1 A Note on Measuring Cities -- 3.2 The Unlikelihood of an Enduring Center: Cities in Transit -- 3.3 The Road to Alexandria -- 3.3.1 Alexandria and the Scientific Mediterranean -- 3.3.2 Courts and Canons -- before and after Chaeronea -- 3.3.3 Alexandrian Generations 3.4 The Road to Athens -- 3.4.1 Before Athens: The Rise of Philosophical Spatial Organization -- 3.4.2 Foundations of Athens -- Chapter 4 Space in Action: When Worlds Diverge -- 4.1 Alexandria: A Literary Survey -- 4.1.1 Alexandria: General Comments -- 4.1.2 Alexandria: Vignettes -- 4.1.3 Alexandria: A Formula -- 4.2 Athens: "Beneath Literature"? -- 4.2.1 A Contrast: Outside Athens -- 4.2.2 A Contrast: Before Athens -- 4.2.3 The Routinization of Socrates -- 4.3 The View from Alexandria: What Did Alexandria Know about Philosophy? -- 4.3.1 The Exact Sciences -- 4.3.2 Medicine 4.3.3 The Thinness of Contact -- 4.3.4 A Close-Up: Aratus -- 4.4 The View from Athens: What Did Athens Know about Science? -- 4.4.1 General Observations and Historical Background: Philosophy on Science -- 4.4.2 The Stoa and Medicine -- 4.4.3 The Stoa and the Mixed Exact Sciences -- 4.4.4 Mathematical Notes -- 4.4.5 Interim Conclusion -- 4.5 Coda to Hellenism: When Worlds Converge -- 4.5.1 Exhibit Number One: Posidonius -- 4.5.2 Coda to Hellenism: The Sciences -- 4.5.3 Coda to Hellenism: Philosophy -- 4.5.4 Coda to Hellenism: Literature Summary Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis of letters' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one's space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism Civilization, Western -- Greek influences. Civilization, Western -- Greek influences Greek literature Greek literature, Hellenistic Intellectual life SUBJECT Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000672 Subject Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108686945 110868694X

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