Case Studies

Giulio Colesanti, Laura Lulli, Giulio Colesanti, Laura Lulli

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9783110428728
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literaturkritik

The book is the second volume of a series of studies dealing with the Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture (s. vol. 1: G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, eds., Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter, 2014). It is a peculiar starting point of the research in the field of Greek culture, since it casts a light on many case studies so far not yet analyzed as literary products subjected to the process of submersion: e.g. oracles, philosophy, phlyax play, epigrams, Aesopic fables, periplus, sacred texts, mysteries, medical treatises, dance, music. Therefore the book investigates the complex and manifold dynamics of 'emergence' and 'submersion' in ancient Greek literary culture, dealing especially with matters as the interaction between orality and literacy, the authorship, the cultural transmission, the folklore. Moreover, the book offers the reader new stimulating approaches in order to reconstruct the wide frame which contained the overall cultural processes, including the literary products subjected to the submersion, in a chronological span going from Greek archaic age to the Imperial age.

Footnotes

1	On Rossi see Napolitano 2010 and Nicolai 2013.
2	‘Fare una recensio della letteratura greca mai emersa a livello editoriale (termine improprio per tutto quello che precede il IV sec. a.C.: sarebbe meglio dire “a livello di diffusione policentrica”). Tale letteratura non era stata protetta dalla polis o da una qualsiasi autorità – per così dire – istituzionale dal punto di vista letterario’.
3	Rossi 2000, 170: ‘Con letteratura ‘sommersa’ io intendo […] testi maltrattati fin dal primissimo inizio della trasmissione, o anche testi che non hanno avuto alcuna trasmissione affatto. Questi testi non hanno goduto di alcun controllo e di alcuna protezione sia perché le varie comunità non avevano alcun interesse a conservarli sia perché avevano, piuttosto, interesse a nasconderli o addirittura a sopprimerli: quest’ultima categoria è rappresentata da quanto era legato ai misteri. Ma molti di questi testi, che dal nostro punto di osservazione giocano a nascondino, hanno avuto grande importanza nel configurare i vari momenti della cultura greca così come ci si presentano, ed è ovviamente nostro interesse cercare di rimetterli in luce, sia pure di necessità parzialmente. È per questo che da qualche tempo penso che sarebbe utile farne una raccolta, che dovrebbe configurarsi per testi integri (rari), per frammenti e infine per testimonianze. Non sarebbe un compito facile: ma varrebbe la pena affrontarlo’.
4	Namely, Roberto Nicolai, who has succeeded Rossi in his chair, Maria Broggiato, Giulio Colesanti, Andrea Ercolani, Manuela Giordano, Laura Lulli, Michele Napolitano, Riccardo Palmisciano, Livio Sbardella, Maurizio Sonnino.
5	‘Fuori dal canone. La Letteratura greca sommersa’ [Outside the canon. Submerged Greek literature] (2012): 26/1/2012 (A. Ercolani, R. Palmisciano, R. Nicolai), 22/2/2012 (L. Sbardella, L. Lulli, G. Colesanti), 21/3/2012 (R. Palmisciano, M. Sonnino, M. Giordano), 26/4/2012 (E. Tagliaferro, P. Vannicelli, G. Ecca), 14/5/2012 (H.-G. Nesselrath, S. Douglas Olson, S. Jedrkiewicz, A. Roselli, M. Broggiato, A. Stramaglia, F. De Romanis, G. Traina). ‘Letteratura greca sommersa. Spazi, codici, occasioni’ [Submerged Greek Literature. Spaces, codes, occasions] (2013): 24/1/2013 (S. Ribichini, M. D’Acunto, E. Lippolis), 15/2/2013 (M. L. Catoni, L. Cerchiai, B. D’Agostino), 14/3/2013 (L. Del Corso, R. Luiselli), 17/4/2013 (L. M. Segoloni, F. Ferrari, G. Cerri), 9/5/2013 (M. Napolitano, A. Meriani, E. Rocconi). ‘Letteratura greca sommersa. La prospettiva comparativa’ [Submerged Greek Literature. The comparative perspective] (2014): 20/1/2014 (J. Ben Dov, G. G. Stroumsa), 17/2/2014 (S. Graziani, R. Denaro, P. De Laurentis), 10/3/2014 (S. Monda, R. Torella), 7/4/2014 (R. Fowler, M. Giordano, L. Pucci), 9/5/2014 (M. Finkelberg, M. Carastro, A. Taddei).
6	Colesanti and Giordano 2014.
7	Broggiato, Colesanti, Ercolani, Giordano, Lulli, Napolitano, Nicolai, Palmisciano, Sbardella, and Sonnino 2014.
8	Constituted by the first four essays in the volume: Ercolani 2014, Palmisciano 2014a, Nicolai 2014 and Broggiato 2014.
9	Respectively Sbardella 2014 and Lulli 2014, Colesanti 2014, Palmisciano 2014b, Sonnino 2014, Giordano 2014.
10	See in particular the contribution of Ercolani 2014.
11	See Broggiato 2014 and Nicolai 2014.
12	For an investigation of the submerged in relation to the Trojan mythical material, treated in rhapsodic epic and in the lyric poetry, see Sbardella 2014; cyclic epic and archaic epic poems with strong local connotations are examined through the lens of the submerged by Lulli 2014. Reflections specifically on the impact of the submerged in the genres of archaic Greek lyric are provided by Palmisciano 2014a and Colesanti 2014. The theatre is the topic of the contributions of Sonnino 2014, with specific attention to the genre of mime, and Palmisciano 2014b, in which both literary and iconographical ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introductory Notes
• A Scholarch Denied: Leucippus, Founder of Ancient Atomism
• Sopater of Paphus and the Phlyax Plays
• Reading the New Erechtheid Casualty List from Marathon
• To Produce Poetry in Order to Submerge it: Socrates’ Aesopic Experience (Plat. Phaedo 60 b1‒61 b7)
• The Muse Looks Down: Theocritus and the Hellenistic Aesthetic of the ‘Submerged’
• An Exceptional Survivor and Its Submerged Background: The Periplus Maris Erythraei and the Indian Ocean Travelogue Tradition
• Traditions on Armenia in Submerged Greek Literature: Preliminary Considerations
• Sacred Texts and Consecrated Texts
• Covered by Silence: Hidden Texts and Secret Rites in the Ancient Mystery Cults
• Orphics at Olbia?
• The Gynaecological and Nosological Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: the Tip of an Iceberg
• Dance in Attic and Argive Geometric Pottery: Figurative Imagery and Ritual Contexts
• Potters and Painters in Archaic Corinth: Schemata and Images
• Ariadne and Her Companions
• A Tale of Mummies, Drinking Parties, and Cultic Practices: Submerged Texts and the Papyrological Evidence
• The Circulation and Transmission of Greek Adespota in Roman Egypt
• La cathédrale engloutie. Greek Music from the Perspective of the Submerged
• The Submerged Musicology of Ancient Greece
• Traces of Folk Music in Ancient Greek Drama
• Index Nominum
• Index Rerum Notabilium
• Index Locorum
• Editors and Contributors
• Footnotes