God of Many Names: Play, Poetry and Power in Hellenic Thought, from Homer to Aristotle

by Mihai I. Spariosu

Tracing the interrelationship among play, poetic imitation, and power to the Hellenic world, Mihai I. Spariosu provides a revisionist model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. Challenging the traditional and static distinction made between archaic and later Greek culture, Spariosu's perspective is grounded in a dialectical understanding of values whose dominance depends on cultural emphasis and which shifts through time. Building upon the scholarship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822311461
• ISBN13: 9780822311461
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.