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Other Title:

Eris versus aemulatio

Subjects:

Competition -- History -- To 1500.
Competition.

Form/Genre:

History.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Cynthia Damon and Christoph Pieper
Part 1. Eris reimagined. 2. Hesiodic Eris and the market / Ruth Scodel
Part 2. Ambivalence, critique, resistance. 3. Agonistic excess and its ritual resolution in hero cult : the funeral games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abyme / Anton Bierl
4. Certare alterno carmine : the rise and fall of bucolic competition / Yelena Baraz
5. Stasis, competition, and the 'noble lie' : metic mettle in Plato's Republic / Geoffrey W. Bakewell
6. Competition and innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2 / Inger N.I. Kuin
7. Aristotle's Poetics and skênikoi agônes / Oliver Taplin
8. Paradoxes and anxieties of competition in Hippocratic medicine / Ralph M. Rosen
Part 3. Multivalence, displacement, innovation. 9. Sleights of hand : epigraphic capping and the visual enactment of Eris in early Greek epigrams / Deborah Steiner
10. Roman architects and the struggle for fame in an unequal society / Christopher Siwicki
11. Political competition and economic change in mid-republican Rome / Seth Bernard
12. Mihi es aemula : elite female status competition in mid-republican Rome and the example of Tertia Aemilia / Lewis Webb
13. The poetics of strife and competition in Hesiod and Ovid / Charles T. Ham
14. Demosthenes versus Cicero : intercultural competition in ancient literary criticism / Casper C. de Jonge
15. Competition and competitiveness in Pollux's Onomasticon / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributor:

Damon, Cynthia, 1957- editor.
Pieper, Christoph, editor.

Other format:

Online version: Damon, Cynthia, 1957- author. Eris vs. Aemulatio

ISBN:

9789004383968
9004383964
9789004383975 (e-book)

OCLC:

1056202099