The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity : Between Dusk and Dawn /
In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a locus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experi...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity -- Antje Wessels and James Ker -- Part 1 Who or What Is the Night? -- 1 Night as Measure, Mother, and Metaphor in the Hesiodic Cosmos -- Adrienne Atkins -- 2 First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Deviant Origins in Orphic Cosmogonies -- Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Part 2 Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy -- 3 Night as Diagnostic Marker in Hippocratic Medicine -- Ralph M. Rosen -- 4 Nights of Insight: Plato on the Philosophical Qualities of the Night -- Albert Joosse -- 5 Night's Fictions: The Religious Institutions of Numa in Lucilius fr. 484-489 (Marx) -- Cynthia Damon -- 6 The Astronomer-Poet at Night: The Evolution of a Motif -- Kathryn Wilson -- Part 3 Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night -- 7 A Night Attack in the Seven Against Thebes -- Isabella Reinhardt -- 8 Tragedy of Darkness: The Role of Night in Euripides' Rhesus -- Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten -- 9 The Witching Hour: Wakeful Women at Work in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus -- Amelia Bensch-Schaus -- 10 Nox rei publicae ? Catiline's and Cicero's Nocturnal Activities in the Catilinarians -- Christoph Pieper -- 11 Inn-Dependent: Spending the Night in a Hostel in the Roman World -- Jane Sancinito -- Part 4 Experiencing by Night -- 12 Better Safe Than Sorry: Nocturnal Divinatory Signs from a First-Century BCE Roman Perspective -- Kim Beerden -- 13 Through the Eyes of the Night: Ecphrasis of Nocturnal Ambush Scenes in Roman Epic and Historiography -- Selina Weissmantel -- 14 Nocturnal Negotiations: Experiencing the Night Scenes from the Iliad at the House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii II 2.2 -- Barbara Kellum -- 15 Persius' Nocturnal Inspiration in the Light of Day -- Jennifer Ferriss-Hill -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a locus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, that range from Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values-in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or lack, in a nocturnal context. | ||
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