Eris vs. Aemulatio

Valuing Competition in Classical Antiquity
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38396-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 423, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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 interpretation of the world; architects and doctors tried to outdo their fellow craftsmen. Discord and conflict resulted, but so did innovation, social cohesion, and political stability. In Hesiod's view Eris was not one entity but two, the one a “grievous goddess,” the other an “aid to men.” Eris vs. Aemulatio examines the functioning and effect of competition in ancient society, in both its productive and destructive aspects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damon, Cynthia

Pieper, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 General Introduction
Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper

Part 1 Eris Reimagined

2 Hesiodic Eris and the Market
Ruth Scodel

Part 2 Ambivalence, Critique, Resistance

3 Agonistic Excess and Its Ritual Resolution in Hero Cult: the Funeral Games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme
Anton Bierl

4 Certare alterno carmine: the Rise and Fall of Bucolic Competition
Yelena Baraz

5 Stasis, Competition, and the ‘Noble Lie’: Metic Mettle in Plato’s Republic
Geoffrey W. Bakewell

6 Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2
Inger N.I. Kuin

7 Aristotle’s Poetics and skenikoi agones
Oliver Taplin

8 Paradoxes and Anxieties of Competition in Hippocratic Medicine
Ralph M. Rosen

Part 3 Multivalence, Displacement, Innovation

9 Sleights of Hand: Epigraphic Capping and the Visual Enactment of Eris in Early Greek Epigrams
Deborah Steiner

10 Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal Society
Christopher Siwicki

11 Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome
Seth Bernard

12 Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia
Lewis Webb

13 The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and Ovid
Charles T. Ham

14 Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary Criticism
Casper C. de Jonge

15 Competition and Competitiveness in Pollux’s Onomasticon
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Damon, Ph.D. (1990), Stanford University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her publications are a critical edition of Caesar’s Civil War and an English translation of Tacitus’ Annals.

Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008), Bonn University, is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. Among his publications are a monograph on the 15th century-poet Cristoforo Landino and a volume on the value of antiquity in antiquity (in the Penn Leiden Colloquia-series).