Year: 2016
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This paper examines Alcaeus fr. 140 V., Xenophanes fr. 1 W., and Theognidea vv. 467–496 to demonstrate how all three compositions offer a verbal construct of the setting of the symposium. Both Alcaeus and Xenophanes describe the andron by, in the first case, visualizing the space from the ceiling to the floor, while in Xenophanes, inversely, the eye moves from the floor to the central space occupied by the krater before ascending, metaphorically, to the gods above. Using yet another strategy, Theognis’ verses shape the sympotic space through a series of deictic pronouns that progress around the andron, and through the exclusion and inclusion of participants, models appropriate modes of behavior and constructs sympotic charis.
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Jenny Strauss Clay
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2592871967