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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Muse's Banquet
Author: The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet
Author: François LissarraguePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861152
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Philosopher's Banquet
Author: Frieda KlotzPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191618284
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany. The form of Table Talk was imitated by several later Greek and Roman imperial authors (such as Aulus Gellius, Athenaeus, and Macrobius), making it a vital part of the early Roman Empire's literary and cultural history. Similarly, the great variety of its contents links it with a broader imperial cultural trend, that of systematizing knowledge, which features increasingly prominently as a subject of scholarly study in both classics and the history of science. The contributors to The Philosopher's Banquet offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of Table Talk's literary form, themes, cultural background, and influence.
The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
Author: Marek WecowskiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199684014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great, its distinctive feature was the importance of diverse cultural competitions among the guests.
The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned
Author: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets
Author: Mayfair Mei-Hui YangPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501713043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.
The Deipnosophists, Or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
Author: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)Publisher:
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
Author: AthenaeusThe Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795
Author: Kate HorganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317318005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, combining the perspectives of literary studies and cultural history, the utilitarian power of songs emerges across four major case studies.
Verbivore's Feast
Author: Chrysti Mueller SmithPublisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560375280
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
What led to the expression "let the cat out of the bag"? Why do we call blondes "towheads"? For Pete's sake, what is a fangle? In this humorous and engaging collection of word origins and histories, the famed host of the Chrysti the Wordsmith series (heard on Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, Montana State University's KGLT-FM, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) shares the stories behind the words. This irresistible medley is a must for word lovers everywhere.