The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity : Between Dusk and Dawn /

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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Other Authors: Ker, James (Editor), Wessels, Antje (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 434.

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Classical antiquities.
Classical philology.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.