Eris vs. Aemulatio : valuing competition in classical antiquity /

Eris vs. Aemulatio : valuing competition in classical antiquity /

Competition is everywhere in antiquity. It took many forms: the upper class competed with their peers and with historical and mythological predecessors; artists of all kinds emulated generic models and past masterpieces; philosophers and their schools vied with one another to give the best interpret...

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Main Authors: Damon, Cynthia, 1957- (Author), Pieper, Christoph (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 423.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390850.

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Competition > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: HB238 .D36 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Notes on Contributors /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Introduction /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Eris Reimagined /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Hesiodic Eris and the Market /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Ambivalence, Critique, Resistance /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Agonistic Excess and Its Ritual Resolution in Hero Cult: the Funeral Games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme /
  • Anton Bierl
  • Certare alterno carmine: the Rise and Fall of Bucolic Competition /
  • Yelena Baraz
  • Stasis, Competition, and the 'Noble Lie': Metic Mettle in Plato's Republic /
  • Geoffrey W. Bakewell
  • Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2 /
  • Inger N.I. Kuin
  • Aristotle's Poetics and skênikoi agônes /
  • Oliver Taplin
  • Paradoxes and Anxieties of Competition in Hippocratic Medicine /
  • Ralph M. Rosen
  • Multivalence, Displacement, Innovation /
  • Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
  • Sleights of Hand: Epigraphic Capping and the Visual Enactment of Eris in Early Greek Epigrams /
  • Deborah Steiner
  • Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal Society /
  • Christopher Siwicki
  • Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome /
  • Seth Bernard
  • Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia /
  • Lewis Webb
  • The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and Ovid /
  • Charles T. Ham
  • Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary Criticism /
  • Casper C. de Jonge
  • Competition and Competitiveness in Pollux's Onomasticon /
  • Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.