Loading...
The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity : Between Dusk and Dawn
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity (Wessels and Ker) -- Part 1. Who or What Is the Night? -- Chapter 1. Night as Measure, Mother, and Metaphor in the Hesiodic Cosmos (Atkins) -- Chapter 2. First-Born of Night or Oozing fro...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston
: BRILL
, 2020
|
| Series: | Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser
|
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6262297 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity (Wessels and Ker) -- Part 1. Who or What Is the Night? -- Chapter 1. Night as Measure, Mother, and Metaphor in the Hesiodic Cosmos (Atkins) -- Chapter 2. First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Deviant Origins in Orphic Cosmogonies (Edmonds) -- Part 2. Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy -- Chapter 3. Night as Diagnostic Marker in Hippocratic Medicine (Rosen) -- Chapter 4. Nights of Insight: Plato on the Philosophical Qualities of the Night (Joosse) -- Chapter 5. Night's Fictions: The Religious Institutions of Numa in Lucilius fr. 484-489 (Marx) (Damon) -- Chapter 6. The Astronomer-Poet at Night: The Evolution of a Motif (Wilson) -- Part 3. Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night -- Chapter 7. A Night Attack in the Seven Against Thebes (Reinhardt) -- Chapter 8. Tragedy of Darkness: The Role of Night in Euripides' Rhesus (von Lehsten) -- Chapter 9. The Witching Hour: Troubled Women in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus (Bensch-Schaus) -- Chapter 10. Nox rei publicae? Catiline's and Cicero's Nocturnal Activities in the Catilinarians (Pieper) -- Chapter 11. Inn-Dependent: Spending the Night in a Hostel in the Roman World (Sancinito) -- Part 4. Experiencing by Night -- Chapter 12. Better Safe than Sorry: Nocturnal Divinatory Signs from a First-Century BCE Roman Perspective (Beerden) -- Chapter 13. Through the Eyes of the Night: Ecphrasis of Nocturnal Ambush Scenes in Roman Epic and Historiography (Weissmantel) -- Chapter 14. Nocturnal Negotiations: Experiencing the Night Scenes from the Iliad at the House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii II 2.2 (Kellum) -- Chapter 15. Persius' Nocturnal Inspiration in the Light of Day (Ferriss-Hill) -- Index Locorum -- Index of Names and Subjects. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (369 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004436367 |
