{"product_id":"the-values-of-nighttime-in-classical-antiquity-between-dusk-and-dawn-9789004435575","title":"The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a locus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of night are explored here through fifteen case-studies, that range from Hesiod to imperial Roman painting and cultural history. The contributors took part in a conference on this theme at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where they pursued a common goal: to consider how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values—in determining what values a thing or a person might have, or lack, in a nocturnal context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity   Antje Wessels and James Ker    Part 1 Who or What Is the Night?    1 Night as Measure, Mother, and Metaphor in the Hesiodic Cosmos   Adrienne Atkins    2 First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Deviant Origins in Orphic Cosmogonies   Radcliffe G. Edmonds III    Part 2 Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy    3 Night as Diagnostic Marker in Hippocratic Medicine   Ralph M. Rosen    4 Nights of Insight: Plato on the Philosophical Qualities of the Night   Albert Joosse    5 Night’s Fictions: The Religious Institutions of Numa in Lucilius fr. 484–489 (Marx)   Cynthia Damon    6 The Astronomer-Poet at Night: The Evolution of a Motif   Kathryn Wilson    Part 3 Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night    7 A Night Attack in the Seven Against Thebes   Isabella Reinhardt    8 Tragedy of Darkness: The Role of Night in Euripides’ Rhesus   Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten    9 The Witching Hour: Wakeful Women at Work in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus   Amelia Bensch-Schaus    10 Nox rei publicae? Catiline’s and Cicero’s Nocturnal Activities in the Catilinarians   Christoph Pieper    11 Inn-Dependent: Spending the Night in a Hostel in the Roman World   Jane Sancinito    Part 4 Experiencing by Night    12 Better Safe Than Sorry: Nocturnal Divinatory Signs from a First-Century BCE Roman Perspective   Kim Beerden    13 Through the Eyes of the Night: Ecphrasis of Nocturnal Ambush Scenes in Roman Epic and Historiography   Selina Weissmantel    14 Nocturnal Negotiations: Experiencing the Night Scenes from the Iliad at the House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii II 2.2   Barbara Kellum    15 Persius’ Nocturnal Inspiration in the Light of Day   Jennifer Ferriss-Hill    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210805010775,"sku":"9789004435575","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-values-of-nighttime-in-classical-antiquity-between-dusk-and-dawn-9789004435575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}