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Symposium (Classical literature). --- Classical literature --- History and criticism.

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The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive understandings of the event and its participants. Sympotic representations thus communicated ideas which, set within broader cultural conversations, could possess a discursive edge. Hence, at the symposion, sympotic styles and identities might be promoted, critiqued and challenged. In the public imagination, the ethics of Greeks and foreigners might be interrogated and political attitudes intimated. Symposia might be suborned into historical narratives about struggles for power. And for philosophers, writing a Symposium was itself a rhetorical act. Investigating the symposion's discursive potential enhances understanding of how the Greeks experienced and conceptualized the symposion and demonstrates its contribution to the Greek thought world.

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) --- Symposium (Classical literature) --- Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art. --- Symposion (Classical Greek drinking party) --- Drinking customs --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive understandings of the event and its participants. Sympotic representations thus communicated ideas which, set within broader cultural conversations, could possess a discursive edge. Hence, at the symposion, sympotic styles and identities might be promoted, critiqued and challenged. In the public imagination, the ethics of Greeks and foreigners might be interrogated and political attitudes intimated. Symposia might be suborned into historical narratives about struggles for power. And for philosophers, writing a Symposium was itself a rhetorical act. Investigating the symposion's discursive potential enhances understanding of how the Greeks experienced and conceptualized the symposion and demonstrates its contribution to the Greek thought world.

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) --- Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art. --- Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in literature --- Symposion --- Symposion dans l'art --- Symposion dans la littérature --- Symposium (Classical literature) --- Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art --- Symposion dans la littérature --- Symposion (Classical Greek drinking party) --- Drinking customs --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social life and customs. --- Intellectual life --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Vie intellectuelle --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The "Carmina XII sapientum" is a corpus of inscriptions from late classical antiquity which was widely received in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; it consists of twelve cycles of twelve poems, each cycle with a different theme. The titles of the manuscripts name twelve scholars as the authors. The present study provides the first detailed critical commentary on the individual elements of the corpus, dealing with all its textual, linguistic, stylistic and content-related aspects. The commentary on each cycle is preceded by a historical treatment of the motifs. In the process, the author reaches a completely new interpretation of this collection of epigrams. She presents it as a jocular work in the ancient literary tradition of the symposium; it was produced at the turn of the 4th century AD by a rhetorically skilled author already versed in Christian discourses, probably by the rhetor and later Christian apologist Lactantius. Unter dem Namen "Carmina XII sapientum" ist ein spätantikes, in Mittelalter und Renaissance breit rezipiertes Inschriftencorpus überliefert, das sich aus zwölf thematisch unterschiedlichen Zyklen zu je zwölf Gedichten zusammensetzt. Als deren Verfasser nennen die Tituli der Handschriften zwölf Gelehrte. In dieser Arbeit erfährt das Corpus erstmalig eine detaillierte Einzelkommentierung, die alle textkritischen, sprachlich-stilistischen und inhaltlichen Aspekte berücksichtigt. Der Kommentierung eines jeden Zyklus geht eine Aufarbeitung seines motivgeschichtlichen Horizontes voraus. Die Autorin kommt dabei zu einer völlig neuen Deutung der Epigrammsammlung. Sie ist als ein in die antike literarische Gattung der Symposien einzuordnendes scherzhaftes Werk zu verstehen, das von einer rhetorisch geschulten, bereits christliche Diskurse rezipierenden Autorenpersönlichkeit an der Schwelle des 4. Jhs. n. Chr. verfasst wurde, wahrscheinlich vom Rhetor und späteren Apologet Lactanz.

Cycles (Literature) --- Cycles (Littérature) --- Cycli (Literatuur) --- Eruditie in de literatuur --- Erudition dans la littérature --- Learning and scholarship in literature --- Symposium (Classical literature) --- Symposion(Littérature classique) --- Lactantius, --- Carmina duodecim sapientum. --- Latin epigrams --- Lactantius --- Epigrams, Latin. --- Learning and scholarship in literature. --- Cycles (Literature). --- Symposion(Littérature classique) --- Epigrams, Latin --- Learning and scholarship --- Literature --- Sequels (Literature) --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- History and criticism --- Firmianus, Lucius Caecilius, --- Lactance, --- Lactantius Firmianus, --- Lactantius, L. C. F. --- Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus --- Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus, --- Lactanz, --- Laktancius Firmianus, --- Laktant︠s︡iĭ, --- Lattanzio, --- Authorship. --- Carmina XII sapientum --- Versus XII sapientum --- Versus duodecim sapientum --- Hexastica duodecim sapientum --- Hexastica XII sapientum --- Hexasticha XII sapientum --- Hexasticha duodecim sapientum --- Symposium XII sapientum --- Symposium duodecim sapientum --- History and criticism. --- Latin poetry --- Poésie latine --- Criticism, Textual --- Critique textuelle --- Authorship --- Carmina duodecim sapientum --- Epigrams [Latin] --- Poetry