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Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom - The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature (Paperback)
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Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom - The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Textiles, 24
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Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness
of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the
production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and
religious significance of garments is key to the appreciation of
how textile and cloth metaphors work as literary devices, their
suitability to conceptualize human activities and represent cosmic
realities, and their potential to evoke symbolic associations and
generic expectations. Spanning mainly Greek and Latin poetic
genres, yet encompassing comparative evidence from other
Indo-European languages and literature, these 18 chapters draw a
various yet consistent picture of the literary exploitation of the
imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing.
Topics include refreshing readings of tragic instances of deadly
peploi and fatal fabrics situate them within a Near Eastern
tradition of curse as garment, explore female agency in the
narrative of their production, and argue for broader symbolic
implications of textile-making within the sphere of natural wealth
The concepts and technological principles of ancient weaving emerge
as cognitive patterns that, by means of analogy rather than
metaphor, are reflected in early Greek mathematic and logical
thinking, and in archaic poetics. The significance of weaving
technology in early philosophical conceptions of cosmic order is
revived by Lucretius' account of atomic compound structure, where
he makes extensive use of textile imagery, whilst clothing imagery
is at the center of the sustained intertextual strategy built by
Statius in his epic poem, where recurrent cloaks activate a
multilayered poetic memory.
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