Gestures : essays in ancient history, literature, and philosophy presented to Alan L. Boeghold /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bakewell, Geoffrey W., Sickinger, James P., Boegehold, Alan L. (Alan Lindley)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books ; Available direct from the David Brown Book Co., 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Literature and Philosophy
  • 1. A Divine Audience for the Celebration of Asopichus' Victory in Pindar's Fourteenth Olympian Ode / Lucia Athanassaki 3
  • 2. [characters not reproducible]; Self-Motion in Plato's Phaedrus / Geoffrey W. Bakewell 16
  • 3. Drinking from the Sources: John Barton's Tantalus and the Epic Cycle / Deborah Boedeker 27
  • 4. Mania and Melancholy: Some Stoic Texts on Insanity / Margaret Graver 40
  • 5. A Gesture in Archilochos 118 (West)? / Carolin Hahnemann 55
  • 6. When an Identity Was Expected: The Slaves in Aristophanes' Knights / Jeffrey Henderson 63
  • 7. Nemesis and Phthonos / David Konstan 74
  • 8. A Reading of Ausonius, Professores I / Joseph Pucci 88
  • 9. Horace epi. 1. 13: Compliments to Augustus / Michael C. J. Putnam 100
  • 10. When A Gesture Was Misinterpreted: didonai titthion in Menander's Samia / Adele C. Scafuro 113
  • 11. Optical Illusions in Ancient Greece / Philip Thibodeau 136
  • 12. Gesture / W. F. Wyatt, Jr 152
  • Part 2 History, Law, and Epigraphy
  • 13. Some Observations on the Appianos sarcophagus (IGUR 1700) / Gregory Bucher 159
  • 14. The First Tragic Contest: Revision Revised / Anne P. Burnett 173
  • 15. Notes for a Philologist / John McK. Camp 183
  • 16. Two Passages in Thucydides / Mortimer Chambers 188
  • 17. Livy's Narrative Habit / Jane D. Chaplin 195
  • 18. Athenian Prostitution as a Liberal Profession / Edward E. Cohen 214
  • 19. Sanides and Sanidia / John E. Fischer 237
  • 20. Thuc. 2.13.3: 600 T. of Tribute / Charles W. Fornara 251
  • 21. Delivering the Go(o)ds: Demetrius Poliorcetes and Hellenistic Divine Kingship / Peter Green 258
  • 22. Lysias 14 and 15. A note on the [characters not reproducible] / Mogens H. Hansen 278
  • 23. Counterproposal at Carthage (Aristotle, Politics II.11.5-6) / G. L. Huxley 281
  • 24. Kallias A (IG I[superscript 3] 52A) and Thucydides 2.13.3 / James J. Kennelly 284
  • 25. Slander in Ancient Athens: A Common Law Perspective / William T. Loomis 287
  • 26. The Bones of Orestes / David D. Phillips 301
  • 27. The Ostracism of Damon / Kurt A. Raaflaub 317
  • 28. The Date of Pnyx III: SEG XII 87, the Law of Eukrates on Tyranny (337/6 B.C.) / M. B. Richardson 332
  • 29. Archon Dates, Atthidographers, and the Sources of Ath. Pol. 22-26 / James P. Sickinger 338
  • 30. A Major Athenian Letter-Cutter ca. 410 to ca. 380: The Cutter of IG II[superscript 2] 17 / S. V. Tracy 351.