Amy Lather
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Lather |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lather |
| SIGNATURE | LATHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
This book formulates a novel way to comprehend the relationship between materiality and cognition by demonstrating how descriptions of objects in archaic and classical Greek texts reveal distinctive ways of conceptualizing human thought and perception. The readings center on the concept of poikilia , a richly multivalent term in Greek aesthetics that is used to characterize artifacts as well as mental activity. By delineating patterns of interact…
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
Illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aesthetics Illustrates the cognitive vibrancy attributed to objects such as armor, textiles, and jewelry in Greek texts Combines new materialist and cognitivist theoretical approaches Offers innovative readings of passages from the Iliad , Odyssey , Works and Days , Theogony as well as from the works of Sappho, Alcman, Alcaeus, Pindar, Aes…
Epic Matter
While the Iliad is dominated by towering characters and elaborate artifacts, it is a world equally filled with tiny matter: the dust and sand that form the backdrop of heroic exploits. This paper illuminates the powerful role that these substances occupy in human life. Boundless in quantity and infinitely mutable, this material serves to visualize the limits of the human body and intellect. Equally important is the connection between these substa…
Olfactory Theater
Olfactory Theater:Tracking Scents in Aeschylus's Oresteia Amy Lather Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Lady Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1, line 53 Vivid imagery of dripping fluids proliferates in Aeschylus's Oresteia, and there is also a distinctive smell attributed to one of these liquids: human blood.1 Cassandra and the Erinyes are capable of sniffing out this odor with their non-human sens…
Taking Pleasure Seriously
This paper examines the role that Plutarch allots to poetry within the philosophical education outlined in the De Audiendis Poetis . It demonstrates how Plutarch’s use of one Pindaric quotation across several books of the Moralia typifies the method of mixing philosophy with poetry that was advocated in the De Audiendis Poetis . The point of doing so, by Plutarch’s own reckoning, is to impart a pleasing seriousness to philosophical discourse, one…
The Sound of Music
This paper examines the vocabulary of sound in the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and focuses in particular on the words employed therein to describe superlative forms of music, terms that in different contexts denote clamorous or unpleasant sounds. By drawing attention to the sonic texture of musical performance in this way, each portrayal suggests that music is not ontologically distinct from noise, but eme…
The Sound of Music
This paper examines the vocabulary of sound in the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and focuses in particular on the words employed therein to describe superlative forms of music, terms that in different contexts denote clamorous or unpleasant sounds. By drawing attention to the sonic texture of musical performance in this way, each portrayal suggests that music is not ontologically distinct from noise, but eme…
Taking Pleasure Seriously
This paper examines the role that Plutarch allots to poetry within the philosophical education outlined in the De Audiendis Poetis . It demonstrates how Plutarch’s use of one Pindaric quotation across several books of the Moralia typifies the method of mixing philosophy with poetry that was advocated in the De Audiendis Poetis . The point of doing so, by Plutarch’s own reckoning, is to impart a pleasing seriousness to philosophical discourse, one…
The Sound of Music
This paper examines the vocabulary of sound in the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and focuses in particular on the words employed therein to describe superlative forms of music, terms that in different contexts denote clamorous or unpleasant sounds. By drawing attention to the sonic texture of musical performance in this way, each portrayal suggests that music is not ontologically distinct from noise, but eme…
Olfactory Theater
Olfactory Theater:Tracking Scents in Aeschylus's Oresteia Amy Lather Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Lady Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1, line 53 Vivid imagery of dripping fluids proliferates in Aeschylus's Oresteia, and there is also a distinctive smell attributed to one of these liquids: human blood.1 Cassandra and the Erinyes are capable of sniffing out this odor with their non-human sens…
Epic Matter
While the Iliad is dominated by towering characters and elaborate artifacts, it is a world equally filled with tiny matter: the dust and sand that form the backdrop of heroic exploits. This paper illuminates the powerful role that these substances occupy in human life. Boundless in quantity and infinitely mutable, this material serves to visualize the limits of the human body and intellect. Equally important is the connection between these substa…
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
This book formulates a novel way to comprehend the relationship between materiality and cognition by demonstrating how descriptions of objects in archaic and classical Greek texts reveal distinctive ways of conceptualizing human thought and perception. The readings center on the concept of poikilia , a richly multivalent term in Greek aesthetics that is used to characterize artifacts as well as mental activity. By delineating patterns of interact…
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
Illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aesthetics Illustrates the cognitive vibrancy attributed to objects such as armor, textiles, and jewelry in Greek texts Combines new materialist and cognitivist theoretical approaches Offers innovative readings of passages from the Iliad , Odyssey , Works and Days , Theogony as well as from the works of Sappho, Alcman, Alcaeus, Pindar, Aes…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetry (3 works)