A Selective Map of the Field of Access in Greek Poetics: Functions, Configurations, and Regimes of Presence
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This essay offers a selective theoretical map of the Field of Access in Greek poetics. Rather than treating Greek literature as a homogeneous field, it distinguishes dominant configurations of access across Homeric epic, Sapphic lyric, Pindaric epinician song, archaic epigram and inscription, Aeschylean tragedy, Sophoclean tragedy, and Euripidean drama. Its central claim is methodological: the Field of Access is not a genre, theme, or stylistic category, but a function through which presence becomes available under specific formal, ritual, material, civic, or dramatic conditions. The essay is intended as a concise framework for differentiating regimes of presence within Greek poetics and for preventing the concept from becoming a generic label.
Author: Voss, Sandra
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7161503454
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