How to Construct a Sympotic Space with Words
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20078398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Strauss Clay (0009-0003-0630-7468, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 204-216 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Look of Lyric : Greek Song and the Visual (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004314849_009 |
| OpenAlex | W2592871967 |
| ISBN | 9789004314849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper examines Alcaeus fr. 140 V., Xenophanes fr. 1 W., and Theognidea vv. 467–496 to demonstrate how all three compositions offer a verbal construct of the setting of the symposium. Both Alcaeus and Xenophanes describe the andron by, in the first case, visualizing the space from the ceiling to the floor, while in Xenophanes, inversely, the eye moves from the floor to the central space occupied by the krater before ascending, metaphorically, to the gods above. Using yet another strategy, Theognis’ verses shape the sympotic space through a series of deictic pronouns that progress around the andron, and through the exclusion and inclusion of participants, models appropriate modes of behavior and constructs sympotic charis
Deixis · Geography · Linguistics · Pure mathematics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Communication · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |