Textual Fluctuations and Cosmic Streams: Ocean and Acheloios

D’Alessio, Giambattista

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“…81 Ty (2019, 870). 82 On Acheloos as the father of rivers, see Brewster (1997, 9-14) andD' Alessio (2004). 83 Guzmán (2019, 162) observes that "a border […] hovers in the indeterminacy between making something new possible -demarcating a space where a different form of sociality can be made to exist -and recreating that which it struggles against. "…”

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Resistant Form

Telò

2023

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Can attending to poetic form help us imagine a radical politics and bridge the gap between pressing contemporary political concerns and an ancient literature that often seems steeped in dynamics of oppression? The corpus of the fifth-century Athenian playwright Aristophanes includes some of the funniest yet most disturbing comedies of Western literature. His work’s anarchic experimentation with language invites a radically “oversensitive” hyperformalism, a formalistic overanalysis that disrupts, disables, or even abolishes a range of normativities (government, labor, reproduction, gender). Exceeding not just historicist contextualism, but also conventional notions of laughter and the logic of the joke, Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis uses Aristophanes to fully embrace, in the practice of close or “too-close” reading, the etymological and conceptual nexus of crisis, critique, and literary criticism. These exuberant readings of Birds, Frogs, Lysistrata, and Women at the Thesmophoria, together with the first attempt ever to grapple with the comic style of critical theorists Gilles Deleuze, Achille Mbembe, and Jack Halberstam, connect Aristophanes with contemporary discourses of biopolitics, necrocitizenship, care, labor, and transness, and at the same time disclose a quasi- or para-Aristophanic mode in the written textures of critical theory. Here is a radically new approach to the literary criticism of the pre-modern – one that materializes the circuit of crisis and critique through a restless inhabitation of the becomings and unbecomings of comic form.

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“…Schol.T Il. 21.195;D'Alessio, G.B. (2004) 16-37 argues for Acheloios being originally the source of all rivers and the whole sea; this function would have been taken over later by Okeanos: cf.…”

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On the Mythology of Okeanos

Anghelina¹

2009

J Anc Near East Religions

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There is no doubt that the historical Greeks beginning with Homer viewed Okeanos as a river encircling the earth. 1 Okeanos represented this river for the epic tradition as well. This is most obvious in Homeric passages in which the poet talks about the sun or stars 'setting in Okeanos'. 2 Okeanos in these passages cannot be anything other than the river surrounding the earth at the horizon, where the sky meets the earth.Okeanos, however, is not originally a Greek concept. This is possibly shown by both its unknown, non-Indo-European etymology, and the fact the Greeks themselves could not explain logically what a river surrounding the earth meant. 3 The main feature of the mythological aspect of the god Okeanos is its primeval nature. In the Hesiodic tradition, Okeanos is a Titan and the son of Ouranos and Gaia, the latter being born directly from Chaos. In the Orphic tradition, on the other hand, Okeanos came into being even before Ouranos and Gaia. This latter tradition has been connected to the Homeric passages in which Okeanos is viewed as 'the father of gods' or 'the father of all beings'. 4 Regardless of how different genealogies belong to different traditions, the relation between Okeanos and Ouranos seems to be a close one. For this reason, Berger (1904) 2-3 saw Okeanos as an original sky-god. 5 In fact, why would Okeanos represent primeval water, since his descendants are celestial gods? 6 It seems 1 F. Gisinger, RE XVII (including etymology); Reinhardt (1971); Lesky (1947); for etymology, see Fauth (1988) 361-79. 2 Pocock (1960 371 suggests that the use of such phrases is metaphorical only. The correspondences with other Near Eastern mythologies are not perfect: e.g., between Okeanos and Tethys, on one side, and the Babylonian Apsu and Tiamat, on the other. Tiamat was split in two by Marduk, her body becoming parts of the sky; Apsu did not encircle the earth. The biblical t e hōm, on the other hand, does not have a pair; cf. West (1997) 144-8.

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Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

Gagné

2021

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Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.

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Textual Fluctuations and Cosmic Streams: Ocean and Acheloios

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