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The values of nighttime in classical antiquity : between dusk and dawn /
"In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a focus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
v. 434. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The values of nighttime in classical antiquity : |b between dusk and dawn / |c edited by James Ker, Antje Wessels. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c [2020] | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Mnemosyne Supplements, |v volume 434 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Who or what is the night? Night as measure, mother, and metaphor in the Hesiodic cosmos / Adrienne Atkins -- First-born of night or oozing from the slime?: deviant origins in Orphic cosmogonies / Radcliffe G. EdmondsIII -- Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy. Night as diagnostic: marker in Hippocratic medicine / Ralph M. Rosen -- Nights of insight: Plato on the philosophical qualities of the night / Albert Joosse -- Night's fictions: the religious institutions of Numain Lucilius fr .484-489 (Marx) / Cynthia Damon -- The astronomer-poet at night: the evolution of a motif / Kathryn Wilson -- Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night. A night attack in the Seven against Thebes / Isabella Reinhardt -- Tragedy of darkness: the role of night in Euripides' Rhesus / Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten -- The witching hour: wakeful women at work in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus / Amelia Bensch-Schaus -- Noxreipublicae?: Catiline's and Cicero's nocturnal activities in the Catilinarians / Christoph Pieper -- Inn-dependent : spending the night in a hostel in the Roman world / Jane Sancinito -- Experiencing by Night. Better safe than sorry: nocturnal divinatory signs from a first-century BCE Roman perspective / Kim Beerden -- Through the eyes of the night: Ecphrasis of nocturnal ambush scenes in Roman epic and historiography / Selina Weissmantel -- Nocturnal negotiations: experiencing the night scenes from the Iliad at the house of Octavius Quartio, PompeiiII 2.2 / Barbara Kellum -- Persius' nocturnal inspiration in the light of day / Jennifer Ferriss-Hill. | |
| 520 | |a "In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a focus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, with topics ranging from Night in Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values-in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or not"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020). | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Classical literature |x History and criticism |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Night in literature |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Light and darkness in literature |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature ancienne |x Histoire et critique |v Congrès. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Nuit dans la littérature |v Congrès. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Lumière et ténèbres dans la littérature |v Congrès. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Classical literature |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Light and darkness in literature |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Night in literature |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Conference papers and proceedings |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ker, James, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wessels, Antje, |e editor. | |
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