The values of nighttime in classical antiquity : between dusk and dawn

Weitere Verfasser: Ker, James, 1970- , [HerausgeberIn]
Wessels, Antje , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Umfang/Format: ix, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity Vol. 434
Schlagworte:
Classical literature > History and criticism > Congresses.
Night in literature > Congresses.
Light and darkness in literature > Congresses.
Parallelausgabe: Values of nighttime in classical antiquity (Online version:) | ISSN: 9789004436367
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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