Thinking the Greeks : A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield (Paperback)

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors’ Introduction: Bruce M. King and Lillian Doherty; Part One: Homer; 1. Laura M. Slatkin "Counterfactuals and the Plot of the Iliad"; 2. Wendy Olmsted "Odysseus at the Boundaries of Pre-Culture"; 3. Sarah Nooter "The Wooden Horse: The Unmaking of the Odyssey"; 4. Froma Zeitlin "Constructing the Aesthetic Body in Homer and Beyond"; 5. Katherine Kretler "Tapping the Wellsprings of Action: Homeric Ring Composition in Aristotle’s Birth of Tragedy"; Part Two: Plato in Conversation with Epic, Tragedy, and Comedy; 6. Glenn Most "Homer, the First of the Tragedians? Remarks on Plato Republic 10"; 7. Kendall Sharp "Plato’s Hippias Minor as Literary Criticism"; 8. Stephanie Nelson "Between Being and Becoming: Comedy, Tragedy, and the Symposium"; 9. Bruce M. King "Contrafactual Education in Sophocles’ Philoktetes and Plato’s Lysis"; 10. Paul Ludwig "Vulgar Eros in the Phaedrus"; 11. James McGlew "Equality and Sortition in Plato’s Laws"; Part Three: Travel and Transmission; 12. Gregory Nagy "A Ritualized Re-thinking of What it Meant to be ‘European’ for Ancient Greeks of the Post-Heroic Age: Evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus"; 13. Wendy Doniger "Menander, Terence, and the Rape of the Clever Wife"; 14. Philippe Borgeaud "Sarapis and the Emperor of China: Some Thoughts on Comparison"; 15. Claudia Zatta "The Desire to Live: Aristotle’s Animals in Hobbes’ Philosophy of Man"; 16. Ian Desai "The Alchemy of Influence: Socrates, Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi"; List of James M. Redfield publications; Index