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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2013). |
| Contents |
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""(1) Theme and Method""; ""(2) Principles of Inquiry""; ""(3) Significance and Synonymity""; ""(4) Structure and Parameters of Investigation""; ""(5) Some Key Texts""; ""1. Polypragmosyne and Periergia from Thucydides to Theophrastus""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Polypragmosyne and the Boundaries of Propriety""; ""(3) Aristotle and Political Polypragmosyne""; ""(4) The Individual as Polypragmon""; ""(5) Sykophants and Polypragmones in Rhetoric""; ""(6) The Aristophanic Polypragmon""; ""(7) The Philosopher as Polypragmon"" |
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""(8) Polypragmosyne and the Interventionist State""""(9) Peisetairos, Aesop, and Polypragmosyne""; ""(10) Demosthenes, Aristomedes, and Levels of Periergia""; ""(11) Theophrastus and the Periergos""; ""(12) Conclusion""; ""2. Translating Polypragmosyne""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Curiosus and Care""; ""(3) Pragma, Negotium, Cura""; ""(4) The Comic Busybody from Greece to Rome""; ""(5) The Careworn Lamb of the Aulularia""; ""(6) Curiosity and the Impulse to Research""; ""(7) Cicero on Being Curiosus""; ""(8) Translating Polypragmosyne and the Interventionist State"" |
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""(9) The Curiosi of Catullus, Horace, and Martial""""(10) Polypragmones, Periergoi, and Curiosi in the Ancient Novel""; ""(11) Conclusion""; ""3. Polypragmosyne and Empire""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Apodemia and the Pursuit of Wisdom""; ""(3) Polybius, Odysseus, and the Pursuit of Learning""; ""(4) Arrian on Alexander and the Gymnosophists""; ""(5) Diodorus Siculus and Imperial Polypragmosyne""; ""(6) Strabo, Pliny, and Imperial Geography""; ""(7) Imperial Geography and the Personality of the Emperor""; ""(8) The Emperor as Explorer and Polypragmon"" |
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""(9) Caesar at Vesontio�Cassius Dio and Thucydides""""(10) Conclusion""; ""4. Polypragmosyne and the Divine""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Impious and Fatal Curiosity""; ""(3) Apuleius on the Perils and Pleasures of Curiosity""; ""(4) Polypragmosyne and the Heavens""; ""(5) Conclusion""; ""5. Polypragmosyne, Periergia, and the Language of Criticism""; ""(1) Introduction""; ""(2) Periergos, Curiosus, and Literary Style""; ""(3) Polypragmosyne, Periergia, and the Problem of Useless Learning""; ""(4) Plato�s Lovers and the Problem of Polymatheia"" |
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""(5) Cicero, Seneca, and Polybius on Useful and Useless Learning""""(6) Varro, Archelaus, and the Curiosity of the Paradoxographer""; ""(7) Antigonus and the Aesthetic of the Paradoxographer""; ""(8) Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human behavior in literature.
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Human behavior in literature. |
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Curiosity in literature.
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Curiosity in literature. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leigh, Matthew. From polypragmon to curiosus. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199668618 |
| ISBN |
9780191645686 (electronic book) |
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0191645680 (electronic book) |
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9780199668618 (hardback) |
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0199668612 (hardback) |
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