Time in ancient stories of origin / Anke Walter.

Greek and Roman stories of origin, aetia, pervade ancient literature. By studying a broad range of texts and closely examining aetia from archaic and Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin an...

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Main Author: Walter, Anke (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Time in Ancient Stories of Origin -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Scholarship on aetia -- 1.2 Aetia in ancient literature: an overview -- 1.3 Narratological characteristics of aetia -- Aetia and the surrounding narrative -- Aetia and narrated/narrative time -- Aetia and memory -- Aetia and continuity vs change -- 1.4 Aim and method of this study -- 1.5 Choice of texts and chapter overview -- 2: Archaic aetia: Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Agamemnon's aetiology -- 2.3 Hesiod's Theogony 
505 8 |a The hymn to Hecate -- The birth of Zeus -- Prometheus and Pandora -- 2.4 The Homeric Hymn to Hermes -- The invention of the lyre: forging a bond between Olympus and earth -- 'The fourth of the month' -- Apollo and 'earth-time': looking back through prophecy -- The lyre as missing link between Olympus and earth -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3: Hellenistic Literature: Ephorus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodius -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Ephorus' Histories -- Apollo and the foundation of the Delphic oracle (F 31b) -- Aetia and the dynamics of language: F 149 -- 3.3 Callimachus' Aetia and Hymns -- The Aetia 
505 8 |a The Hymn to Apollo -- 3.4 Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica -- The Argonautic time-frame -- The 'dating' of the Argonauts' foundational deeds -- The previous generations of gods -- 'Apollo of the Morning' -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4: Augustan aetia: Livy, Vergil, and Ovid -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Livy's ab urbe condita -- General characteristics of Livian aetia -- Camillus and the refoundation of Rome -- Aetia and exemplarity -- 4.3 Vergil's Aeneid -- 'arriving' in time -- Anticipating Roman time -- ending 'in time' -- 4.4 Ovid's Fasti -- Aetiological time in the Fasti -- The Parilia 
505 8 |a The birth of Rome -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5: Early Christian Literature: Prudentius and Orosius -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Prudentius' Peristephanon -- Peristephanon 2 and its aetiological structure -- Aetiology and typology -- The poem's aetiological centre -- Converting the tex -- 5.3 Orosius' Histories -- A landscape of destruction -- Preserving the traces -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Index 
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