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Author Kirk, Athena, author.

Title Ancient Greek lists : catalogue and inventory across genres / Athena Kirk
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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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
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.
Cataloging -- Greece -- Sources
Classical literature -- Catalogs
rosters.
seat rails.
Cataloging
Civilization
Classical literature
Lists
SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Subject Greece
Genre/Form Catalogs
Sources
Form Electronic book
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