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100	1		_aKurke, Leslie.
245	1	0	_aAesopic conversations _h[electronic resource] : _bpopular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / _cLeslie Kurke.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2011.
300			_axxi, 495 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aMartin classical lectures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	0	0	_aAesop _xInfluence.
630	0	0	_aAesop's fables.
650		0	_aGreek prose literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aFables, Greek _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPopular culture _zGreece _xHistory _yTo 146 B.C.
650		0	_aPopular culture and literature _zGreece _xHistory _yTo 146 B.C.
650		0	_aLiterary form _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreece _xHistory _yTo 146 B.C.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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830		0	_aMartin classical lectures.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10467759 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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