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Book SynopsisAncient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Of immense value to students and scholars of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. The tally of text; 1. A number of things: Homeric catalogue, numerical authority, and the uncountable; 2. 'Or such a woman as…': gender and exchange in the Hesiodic catalogue; 3. Displaying the past: inquiry as inventory in Herodotus; 4. Stone treasuries: the apodeictic inscribed inventory; 5. Citizens who count: Aristophanes' documentary poetics; 6. Unified I; 7. Conclusion and epilogue: the materialization of lists; Appendix of images.
