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The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative
approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on
an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of
epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, the book engages into a thorough
discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and
collective experience. Stamatia Dova revisits key passages from the
Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Pindar's
epinician odes, Euripides' Herakles, and other texts to identify a
poetics of failure that encompasses gods, heroes, athletes, and
citizens alike. From Odysseus' shortcomings as a captain in the
Odyssey to the defeat of anonymous wrestlers at the 460 B.C.E.
Olympics in Pindar, this study examines failure from a
mythological, literary, and historical perspective. Mindful of
ancient Greek society's emphasis on honor and shame, Dova's
in-depth analysis also sheds light on cultural responses to failure
as well as on its preservation in societal memory, as in the case
of Phrynichos' The Fall of Miletos in 493 B.C.E. Athens. Engaging
for both scholars and students, this book is key reading for those
interested in how ancient Greek literary paradigms tried to answer
the question of how and why we fail.
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