TY  - GEN
T1  - Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose
T2  - Martin classical lectures.
A1  - Kurke, Leslie
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn726747833
AB  - Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek  high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was -- unexpectedly -- central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. --
OP  - 495
CN  - PA3257 .K87 2011eb
SN  - 9781400836567
SN  - 1400836565
SN  - 1283088827
SN  - 9781283088824
SN  - 9780691144573
SN  - 0691144575
SN  - 9780691144580
SN  - 0691144583
KW  - Aesop's fables.
KW  - Aesop : Influence.
KW  - Aesop
KW  - Aesop's fables
KW  - Greek prose literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Fables, Greek : History and criticism.
KW  - Popular culture : Greece : History : To 146 B.C.
KW  - Popular culture and literature : Greece : History : To 146 B.C.
KW  - Literary form : History : To 1500.
KW  - Literature and society : Greece : History : To 146 B.C.
KW  - Greece, Ancient
KW  - Prose grecque : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Fables grecques : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Ancient & Classical.
KW  - HISTORY : Ancient : Greece.
KW  - Fables, Greek
KW  - Greek prose literature
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Popular culture and literature
KW  - Greece
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -