Birth of the Symbol
Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9672533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Collins |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts, Peter T Struck, 2004 |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4353023 |
| OpenAlex | W371060877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Acknowledgments xi Introduction The Genealogy of the Symbolic 1 1 Symbols and Riddles: Allegorical Reading and the Boundaries of the Text 21 2 Beginnings to 300 b.c.e.: Meaning from the Void of Chance and the Silence of the Secret 77 3 From the Head of Zeus: The Birth of the Literary Symbol 111 4 Swallowed Children and Bound Gods: The Diffusion of the Literary Symbol 142 5 300 b.c.e.-200 c.e.: The Symbol as Ontological Signifier 162 6 Iamblichus and the Defense of Ritual: Talismanic Symbols 204 7 Moonstones and Men That Glow: Proclus and the Talismanic Signifier 227 Epilogue Symbol Traces: Post-Proclean Theories 254 Appendix Chrysippus's Reading and Authorial Intention: The Case of the Mural at Samos 279 Bibliography of Ancient Authors 283 Bibliography of Modern Authors 285 Index Locorum 297 General Index 311
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Symbol (formal) · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Unseeing the Shown, Showing the Unseen
Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis
On symbolism in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s 'Timaeus'
Decline, Fall, and Transformation
Rethinking Orphic ‘Bookishness’
The Point of the Plow
Placing Human Constants within Literary History
The Reader and the Resurrection in Prudentius
L’allegoria svelata
Personification Allegory in the Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses
Interpreters of Interpreters’
Bears, Gates, and Solstices
Chrysippos und das obszöne Bild von Zeus und Hera. Eine forschungskritische Sichtung der Evidenz
Kleisthenes the Stoner
When the Eyes Are Shut
Lessons in Reading
Herodotus
What About Hermes
Hesiod in Plato’s Theaetetus
Democritus and Allegoresis
The Magic of Homeric Verses
Stoic Allegoresis
Allegorical Interpretation in Homer
Heraclitus the Allegorist, Homeric Problems
Proclus
Simonides the Poet
Doubtful Certainties
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2
Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context
Unity in Diversity
Plato's Forms, Pythagorean Mathematics, and Stichometry
The Sophists and Allegoresis
The Beginnings of Greek Allegoresis
Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus
Seminal Verse
Plato in the Third Sophistic
Ancient Philosophical Poetics
Letters in the Sky
Plato and the cave allegory. An interpretation beginning with verbs of knowledge
Music and Language in Ancient Verse
Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification
Seneca's Characters
Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
The New Politics of Olympos
The Greeks and the New
Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature
Plato on poetic creativity
Gorgias and the Psychology of the Logos
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.
Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning
Aristotle's De Interpretatione
The Constraints of Desire
Egypt after the Pharaohs
The Stoics on Ambiguity
The Interdiction of Magic in Roman Law
Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
Cicero and Divination
The Greeks and the Irrational
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |