Anke Walter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5663793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anke Walter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anke |
| FAMILY NAME | Walter |
| SIGNATURE | WALTER A |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4114-3115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Temporality of Festivals
How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time ‘special’, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from ‘normal’, everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it? While a lot of research has been done on festivals from the point of view of several scholarly disciplines, the specific temporality of festivals has not …
Herodotean Intertexts in Apollonius Rhodius (on A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography)
of monographs on the narrator in archaic and Hellenistic poetry as well as on Pindar's Sicilian victory odes-makes an important contribution to our understanding of the intricate intertextuality of one of the key texts of Hellenistic poetry.As Morrison explains in the introduction, his focus is on Apollonius' use of Herodotean historiography as a mode of discourse, in terms of the construction of narrative, the presentation of characters, the aut…
Hellenistic literature
In the Histories , the fourth-century historian Ephorus engages with one of the central aetia of the past: the story of how Apollo founded the oracle in Delphi (F 31b). Ephorus shifts the emphasis from the continuity of archaic time to the more dynamic time of the history of men on earth. In his discussion of the Spartan constitution and its origin (F 149), Ephorus uses aetia to give a nuanced picture of the interplay of continuity and change in …
Archaic aetia
The aetiological story of Ate, told by Agamemnon in Book 19 of the Iliad , establishes a connection between the crucial moment when the main conflict of the epic is resolved and an important moment of transition on Olympus. While tying the time of men and the time of gods together in a shared ‘ever since then’, the aetion also marks a growing divide between the two, providing a vivid stratigraphy of Iliadic time. In Hesiod’s Theogony , three aeti…
Conclusion
While generic differences between different types of aetia are not as clear-cut as one might think, a more promising explanation of the differences between individual aetia is the period of literary history to which they belong. Aetia, in the specific ways in which they are narrated, are very much products of their time. They are also often told at crucial points of a narrative, and they provide privileged places for authorial self-reflection, bo…
Augustan aetia
Livy, in his ab urbe condita , makes it clear that origins are subject to change: to growth and development, or to decay and decline. This temporal framework is closely connected with the circularity of exemplarity, of deeds that can be re-enacted again and again. This draws attention to the fact that Livy himself, by writing this aetiological account, also acts in an exemplary way, exhorting his readers to do something similar for the city they …
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia, which pervade ancient literature at all its stages, are inherently about time: they connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive “even now” or “ever since then”. Yet while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of…
Aetiology and genealogy in ancient epic
Genealogy and aetiology are important elements of ancient epic storytelling. Not only does Hesiod in his Theogony present the genealogy of the gods, but he also defines the Homeric heroes by their genealogy. Famous ancestors and a long line of ancestry are part of a hero's claims to fame and oblige him to live up to that heritage. Consequently, the recounting of genealogies pervades the narrative and the speeches of its protagonists in the Iliad …
Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia, which pervade ancient literature at all its stages, are inherently about time: they connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive “even now” or “ever since then”. Yet while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of…
Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster
Aetiology and genealogy in ancient epic
Genealogy and aetiology are important elements of ancient epic storytelling. Not only does Hesiod in his Theogony present the genealogy of the gods, but he also defines the Homeric heroes by their genealogy. Famous ancestors and a long line of ancestry are part of a hero's claims to fame and oblige him to live up to that heritage. Consequently, the recounting of genealogies pervades the narrative and the speeches of its protagonists in the Iliad …
Hellenistic literature
In the Histories , the fourth-century historian Ephorus engages with one of the central aetia of the past: the story of how Apollo founded the oracle in Delphi (F 31b). Ephorus shifts the emphasis from the continuity of archaic time to the more dynamic time of the history of men on earth. In his discussion of the Spartan constitution and its origin (F 149), Ephorus uses aetia to give a nuanced picture of the interplay of continuity and change in …
Archaic aetia
The aetiological story of Ate, told by Agamemnon in Book 19 of the Iliad , establishes a connection between the crucial moment when the main conflict of the epic is resolved and an important moment of transition on Olympus. While tying the time of men and the time of gods together in a shared ‘ever since then’, the aetion also marks a growing divide between the two, providing a vivid stratigraphy of Iliadic time. In Hesiod’s Theogony , three aeti…
Conclusion
While generic differences between different types of aetia are not as clear-cut as one might think, a more promising explanation of the differences between individual aetia is the period of literary history to which they belong. Aetia, in the specific ways in which they are narrated, are very much products of their time. They are also often told at crucial points of a narrative, and they provide privileged places for authorial self-reflection, bo…
Augustan aetia
Livy, in his ab urbe condita , makes it clear that origins are subject to change: to growth and development, or to decay and decline. This temporal framework is closely connected with the circularity of exemplarity, of deeds that can be re-enacted again and again. This draws attention to the fact that Livy himself, by writing this aetiological account, also acts in an exemplary way, exhorting his readers to do something similar for the city they …
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia, which pervade ancient literature at all its stages, are inherently about time: they connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive “even now” or “ever since then”. Yet while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of…
Herodotean Intertexts in Apollonius Rhodius (on A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography)
of monographs on the narrator in archaic and Hellenistic poetry as well as on Pindar's Sicilian victory odes-makes an important contribution to our understanding of the intricate intertextuality of one of the key texts of Hellenistic poetry.As Morrison explains in the introduction, his focus is on Apollonius' use of Herodotean historiography as a mode of discourse, in terms of the construction of narrative, the presentation of characters, the aut…
The Temporality of Festivals
How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time ‘special’, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from ‘normal’, everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it? While a lot of research has been done on festivals from the point of view of several scholarly disciplines, the specific temporality of festivals has not …
Art (9 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Apollo (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Classical literature (2 works)