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050 00 $aPA3014.N55$bV35 2020
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245 04 $aThe values of nighttime in classical antiquity :$bbetween dusk and dawn /$cedited by James Ker, Antje Wessels.
264 1 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c[2020]
300 $aix, 359 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aMnemosyne supplements,$x0169-8958 ;$vvolume 434
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aWho 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 $a"In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a focus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, with topics ranging from Night in Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values-in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or not"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aClassical literature$xHistory and criticism$vCongresses.
650 0 $aNight in literature$vCongresses.
650 0 $aLight and darkness in literature$vCongresses.
650 7 $aClassical literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00863509
650 7 $aLight and darkness in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01896072
650 7 $aNight in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01037650
650 7 $aAntike$2gnd$0(DE-588)4068754-5
650 7 $aLiteratur$2gnd$0(DE-588)4035964-5
650 7 $aNacht$gMotiv$2gnd$0(DE-588)4364523-9
655 7 $aConference papers and proceedings.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423772
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aKer, James,$eeditor.
700 1 $aWessels, Antje,$eeditor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tValues of nighttime in classical antiquity$dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.$z9789004436367$w(DLC) 2020023496
830 0 $aMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.$pSupplementum ;$vv. 434.
852 00 $bglx$hPA3014.N55$iV35 2020