Ancient Poetic Etymology
The Pelopids: Fathers and Sons
by Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos
(Hardback) (Published)
(January 2007)
ISBN: 9783515089395
6.65 x 9.45 inches
Price: $77.00
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The potential of ancient Greek poetic etymologizing and its reception in antiquity are analyzed with new interpretive models. The author studies poetic etymology in a holistic and integrative manner, as a tool of thematic and narrative unification. Select passages from Homer and archaic lyric poetry provide the matrix for etymological patterns; their validity is examined in an intertextual study of the names of Pelops and his kin. This family exhibits a consistent naming system: the signifiers and signifieds of its male members manifest a lexical and semantic affinity; fathers and sons are linked with inherited linguistic and behavioral bonds. Pelops is given a focal position on account of his preeminence at Olympia and his polyvalent and polysemous name, in which the ambiguities and polarities of his mythic and cultic identity are embedded.
- By (author) Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos
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