Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, "Aesopic Conversations" offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of 'great' and 'little' traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was - unexpectedly - central to the construction of ancient Greek literature.
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domestication of Aesop. 讲一个出身低微的传统如何在希腊prose诞生成形的关键时刻进入sophia的战场，进入希罗多德的历史书写。大开眼界到我无法判断。只是最后说历史是寓言，想到其实就是把历史是当代史换个角度重新说——扑哧笑出来了
评分domestication of Aesop. 讲一个出身低微的传统如何在希腊prose诞生成形的关键时刻进入sophia的战场，进入希罗多德的历史书写。大开眼界到我无法判断。只是最后说历史是寓言，想到其实就是把历史是当代史换个角度重新说——扑哧笑出来了
评分domestication of Aesop. 讲一个出身低微的传统如何在希腊prose诞生成形的关键时刻进入sophia的战场，进入希罗多德的历史书写。大开眼界到我无法判断。只是最后说历史是寓言，想到其实就是把历史是当代史换个角度重新说——扑哧笑出来了
评分domestication of Aesop. 讲一个出身低微的传统如何在希腊prose诞生成形的关键时刻进入sophia的战场，进入希罗多德的历史书写。大开眼界到我无法判断。只是最后说历史是寓言，想到其实就是把历史是当代史换个角度重新说——扑哧笑出来了
评分domestication of Aesop. 讲一个出身低微的传统如何在希腊prose诞生成形的关键时刻进入sophia的战场，进入希罗多德的历史书写。大开眼界到我无法判断。只是最后说历史是寓言，想到其实就是把历史是当代史换个角度重新说——扑哧笑出来了
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