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Index
Cover
Half tilte
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. An Elusive Quarry: In Search of Ancient Greek Popular Culture
II. Explaining the Joke: A Road Map for Classicists
III. Synopsis of Method and Structure of Argument
Part I: Competitive Wisdom and Popular Culture
Chapter 1 Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority
I. Ideological Tensions at Delphi
II. The Aesopic Critique
III. Neoptolemus and Aesop: Sacrifice, Hero Cult, and Competitive Scapegoating
Chapter 2 Sophia before/beyond Philosophy
I. The Tradition of Sophia
II. Sophists and (as) Sages
III. Aristotle and the Transformation of Sophia
Chapter 3 Aesop as Sage: Political Counsel and Discursive Practice
I. Aesop among the Sages
II. Political Animals: Fable and the Scene of Advising
Chapter 4 Reading the Life: The Progress of a Sage and the Anthropology of Sophia
I. An Aesopic Anthropology of Wisdom
II. Aesop and Ahiqar
III. Delphic Theōria and the Death of a Sage
IV. The Bricoleur as Culture Hero, or the Art of Extorting Self-Incrimination
Chapter 5 The Aesopic Parody of High Wisdom
I. Demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the Seven Sages
II. Aesopic Parody in the Visual Tradition?
Part II: Aesop and the Invention of Greek Prose
Chapter 6 Aesop at the Invention of Philosophy
Prelude to Part II: The Problematic Sociopolitics of Mimetic Prose
I. Mimēsis and the Invention of Philosophy
II. The Generic Affiliations of Sōkratikoi logoi
Chapter 7 The Battle over Prose: Fable in Sophistic Education and Xenophon’s Memorabilia
I. Sophistic Fables
II. Traditional Fable Narration in Xenophon’s Memorabilia
Chapter 8 Sophistic Fable in Plato: Parody, Appropriation, and Transcendence
I. Plato’s Protagoras: Debunking Sophistic Fable
II. Plato’s Symposium: Ringing the Changes on Fable
Chapter 9 Aesop in Plato’s Sōkratikoi Logoi: Analogy, Elenchos, and Disavowal
I. Sophia into Philosophy: Socrates between the Sages and Aesop
II. The Aesopic Bricoleur and the “Old Socratic Tool-Box”
III. Sympotic Wisdom, Comedy, and Aesopic Competition in Hippias Major
Chapter 10 Historiē and Logopoiïa: Two Sides of Herodotean Prose
I. History before Prose, Prose before History
II. Aesop Ho Logopoios
III. Plutarch Reading Herodotus: Aesop, Ruptures of Decorum, and the Non-Greek
Chapter 11 Herodotus and Aesop: Some Soundings
I. Cyrus Tells a Fable
II. Greece and (as) Fable, or Resignifying the Hierarchy of Genre
III. Fable as History
IV. The Aesopic Contract of the Histories: Herodotus Teaches His Readers
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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