03892nam a2200445 a 4500 ebr10467759 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100305s2011 njua sb 001 0 eng d 2010006842 9780691144573 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691144580 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781400836567 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)726747833 e-gr--- PA3257 .K87 2011eb 886/.0109 22 Kurke, Leslie. Aesopic conversations [electronic resource] : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / Leslie Kurke. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011. xxi, 495 p. : ill. Martin classical lectures Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Aesop Influence. Aesop's fables. Greek prose literature History and criticism. Fables, Greek History and criticism. Popular culture Greece History To 146 B.C. Popular culture and literature Greece History To 146 B.C. Literary form History To 1500. Literature and society Greece History To 146 B.C. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Martin classical lectures. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10467759 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 241909 241909