The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn PDF
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TheValuesofNighttimeinClassicalAntiquity Mnemosyne Supplements monographs on greek and latin language and literature TemporaryExecutiveEditor K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity) EditorialBoard A.Chaniotis(InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton) C.C.deJonge(LeidenUniversity) T.Reinhardt(OxfordUniversity) volume 434 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mns The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity BetweenDuskandDawn Editedby JamesKer AntjeWessels LEIDEN | BOSTON TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2020023495 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN0169-8958 ISBN978-90-04-43557-5(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-43636-7(e-book) Copyright2020byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher.Requestsforre-useand/ortranslationsmustbe addressedtoKoninklijkeBrillNVviabrill.comorcopyright.com. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Contents NotesonContributors viii Introduction:TheValuesofNighttimeinClassicalAntiquity 1 AntjeWesselsandJamesKer Part 1 WhoorWhatIstheNight? 1 NightasMeasure,Mother,andMetaphorintheHesiodicCosmos 23 AdrienneAtkins 2 First-BornofNightorOozingfromtheSlime?DeviantOriginsinOrphic Cosmogonies 46 RadcliffeG.EdmondsIII Part 2 NocturnalKnowledge:Medicine,Philosophy,Religion, Astronomy 3 NightasDiagnosticMarkerinHippocraticMedicine 73 RalphM.Rosen 4 NightsofInsight:PlatoonthePhilosophicalQualitiesoftheNight 93 AlbertJoosse 5 Night’sFictions:TheReligiousInstitutionsofNumainLucilius fr.484–489(Marx) 112 CynthiaDamon 6 TheAstronomer-PoetatNight:TheEvolutionofaMotif 131 KathrynWilson vi contents Part 3 SocietyandGender:MenandWomenatWork,byNight 7 ANightAttackintheSevenAgainstThebes 153 IsabellaReinhardt 8 TragedyofDarkness:TheRoleofNightinEuripides’Rhesus 166 Marie-CharlottevonLehsten 9 TheWitchingHour:TroubledWomeninHomer,Apollonius,and Theocritus 190 AmeliaBensch-Schaus 10 Noxreipublicae?Catiline’sandCicero’sNocturnalActivitiesinthe Catilinarians 210 ChristophPieper 11 Inn-Dependent:SpendingtheNightinaHostelintheRoman World 234 JaneSancinito Part 4 ExperiencingbyNight 12 BetterSafeThanSorry:NocturnalDivinatorySignsfromaFirst-Century BCERomanPerspective 257 KimBeerden 13 ThroughtheEyesoftheNight:EcphrasisofNocturnalAmbushScenes inRomanEpicandHistoriography 275 SelinaWeissmantel 14 NocturnalNegotiations:ExperiencingtheNightScenesfromtheIliadat theHouseofOctaviusQuartio,PompeiiII2.2 290 BarbaraKellum 15 Persius’NocturnalInspirationintheLightofDay 308 JenniferFerriss-Hill contents vii IndexLocorum 335 IndexofNamesandSubjects 350 Notes on Contributors AdrienneAtkins Ph.D.candidate,DepartmentofClassicalStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania AmeliaBensch-Schaus Ph.D.candidate,DepartmentofClassicalStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania KimBeerden UniversityLecturer,InstituteforHistory,LeidenUniversity CynthiaDamon ProfessorofClassicalStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania RadcliffeG.EdmondsIII PaulShoreyProfessorofGreek,BrynMawrCollege JenniferFerriss-Hill AssociateProfessorofClassics,UniversityofMiami AlbertJoosse Lecturer, Greek and Latin Languages and Culture, University of Groningen; Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, UtrechtUniversity BarbaraKellum ProfessorofArt,SmithCollege JamesKer AssociateProfessorofClassicalStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania Marie-CharlottevonLehsten Ph.D.candidate,UniversityofMainz;Lecturer,TechnischeUniversitätDresden ChristophPieper UniversityLecturerofLatinLanguageandLiterature,LeidenUniversity IsabellaReinhardt Ph.D.candidate,DepartmentofClassicalStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania notes on contributors ix RalphM.Rosen VartanGregorianProfessoroftheHumanitiesandProfessorofClassicalStud- ies,UniversityofPennsylvania JaneSancinito AssistantProfessorofHistory,UniversityofMassachusetts-Lowell SelinaWeissmantel Teacher,RobertSchumanSchule,Frankenthal AntjeWessels ProfessorofLatinLanguageandLiterature,LeidenUniversity KathrynWilson LecturerinClassics,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis
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