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  • Sērija : Hellenic Studies Series
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  • Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0674292421
  • ISBN-13: 9780674292420
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 262 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x15 mm, weight: 454 g, 2 tables
  • Sērija : Hellenic Studies Series
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  • ISBN-13: 9780674292420
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Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems dated to the third and second centuries BCE: Aratus’s Phaenomena, Nicander’s Theriaca, Callimachus’s Aetia, Apollonius of Rhodes’s Argonautica, and Lycophron’s Alexandra.

Situating these poetic works in their intellectual and literary milieu, Kathleen Kidder applies the philosophic concept of the criterion of truth, arguing that each poetic persona represents a different criterion for interrogating truth and falsehood. Moreover, by analyzing the poems’ allusions, myths, and poetic language, Kidder demonstrates how this poetry can encapsulate the tensions not only between truth and falsehood, but also between order and chaos, certainty and doubt, clarity and obscurity, seen and unseen, and being and seeming.



Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron.

Recenzijas

Examines how Hellenistic poets similarly evaluated competing truth-claims in their sourcesscholars of Hellenistic philosophy as well as poetry will surely benefit from Kidders interdisciplinary, innovative approach. -- Brett Evans * Religious Studies Review *

Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction
1(38)
1 Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus
1(6)
2 Criteria of Truth
7(4)
3 Background
11(16)
3.1 Truth and falsehood in early poetry
11(6)
3.2 Sixth- and fifth-century criticism
17(3)
3.3 Philosophical views toward poetry and truth
20(6)
3.4 Summary
26(1)
4 Methodology
27(3)
5 Case Study: Posidippus AB 63
30(4)
6
Chapter Overview
34(5)
2 Aratus and Nicander: Myth and Subject Matter
39(58)
1 Nature of the Subject Matter
42(8)
1.1 Aratus
42(3)
1.2 Nicander
45(4)
1.3 Summary
49(1)
2 Myths
50(10)
2.1 Origins stories
51(9)
3 Myths of Decline and Loss
60(10)
3.1 Introduction
60(10)
4 Narratives of Discovery
70(10)
4.1 Finder of the stars
70(3)
4.2 Chiron's herb
73(2)
4.3 Alcibius narratives
75(4)
4.4 Summary
79(1)
5 Myths and Etymology
80(10)
5.1 Aratus and the Hippocrene
81(2)
5.2 Bane Helen vs. the blood-letting snake
83(6)
5.3 Summary
89(1)
6 Scorpion Myths
90(5)
6.1 Aratus' Scorpion
90(2)
6.2 Nicander's Scorpion
92(3)
7 Conclusion
95(2)
3 Callimachus and Apollonius: Voices, Sources, and Stories
97(48)
1 Narrators
99(10)
1.1 Narratorial types
99(2)
1.2 The Callimachean narrator
101(5)
1.3 The Apollonian narrator
106(3)
1.4 Summary of narratorial voices
109(1)
2 Sources
109(25)
2.1 Callimachean sources
109(12)
2.2 The Muses of Apollonius
121(13)
3 Evaluating Stories
134(9)
3.1 Too much knowledge
135(3)
3.2 The sickle beneath Drepane
138(4)
3.3 Summary
142(1)
4 Conclusion
143(2)
4 Lycophron: A Deeper Understanding
145(46)
1 Messenger vs. Cassandra
149(4)
2 Helen
153(14)
3 Odysseus
167(11)
4 Sirens
178(10)
5 Conclusion
188(3)
5 Conclusion: Fabricated for Truth
191(8)
Tables 199(2)
Bibliography 201(28)
Index Locorum 229(12)
Index of Greek Words 241(2)
Index of Subjects 243
Kathleen Kidder is Professor of Practice in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston.