Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture

An Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID9307941
EditorsGiulio Colesanti, Manuela Giordano (0000-0001-7654-8206)
Year2014
Publication date2014-07-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIntroduction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110334081
OpenAlexW902244817
Open LibraryOL37167853M
ISBN9783110334081
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contributed to the configuration and articulation of ancient Greek culture as we know it. In particular, the hermeneutic tool of submerged literature may shed new light on the dynamics behind the 'emersion' or 'submersion' of certain texts during different periods. The category of submerged literature is extended here to include preserved and lost texts as well as those texts that can be reconstructed through investigation. The volume investigates the manifold speech acts that we know of through various sources and that, either from the outset or over the course of time, have been placed at the edge of diffusion, conservation and transmission. The essays contained in the volume deal with questions of hermeneutics, philology and methodology, as well as with epic cycles, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, satyr drama, and mime. By approaching these genres from the perspective of submerged literature, the book tries to provide a more precise contextualization of the texts within the communication system of ancient Greece. The book thus presents a new line of research and a series of studies that take a fresh look at the texts and all archaeological and iconographic sources relating to Greek culture, taking into account the results of ethnographic and anthropological research. This extensive investigation examines unique ancient Greek orality and literacy dynamics using a new hermeneutic frame that will hopefully reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture

Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Art · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Greek literature · Greek literature, history and criticism · History and criticism

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