Anton Bierl

Wolfgang Braungart

Die Beiträge des Autorenkolloquiums am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld (Nov. 2007) setzen sich intensiv mit Walter Burkert und seinem Werk auseinander. Der international hoch angesehene Gräzist hat in seinen Epoche machenden Studien, die um die Ursprünge menschlichen Zusammenlebens in Riten, um Opfer, Schuld und grausame Todesszenarien kreisen, Fragestellungen der biologischen Verhaltensforschung aufgenommen und über die Altertums- und Religionswissenschaften hinaus eine große intellektuelle Wirkung entfaltet.

Gewalt Und Opfer: Im Dialog Mit Walter Burkert (Mythos Eikon Poiesis ; Bd. 2)

Menelaos Christopoulos

Athina Papachrysostomou

From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.

Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture

Andr Lardinois

In "The Newest Sappho" Anton Bierl and Andre Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of the 20th century, provides significant new readings and additions to five previously known songs of Sappho (frs. 5, 9, 16, 17 and 18), as well as the remains of four previously unknown songs, including the new Brothers Song and the Kypris Song. The contributors discuss the content of these poems as well as the consequence they have for our understanding of Sappho s life and work."

P. Sapph. Obbink and P. Gc Inv. 105, Frs. 1-4: Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song

The Newest Sappho

Katharina Wesselmann

Rebecca Lämmle

The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography, Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual structure and poetics. Working in interdisciplinary cooperation, some participants also direct their attention towards Egypt, the Near East, Rome, and to the reception of these poetological principles in modern literature.

Wege zu einer mythisch-rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen

Literatur und Religion, 1

The volume presented here is a collection of the contributions to an author’s colloquium with Walter Burkert, which was held in November 2007 in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld. Well known experts looked in detail at the work of the internationally renowned scholar of Greek. In his epochal cultural-scientific studies focusing on the origins of human co-existence in rites, on violence, sacrifice, guilt and horrific scenarios of death, Burkert approached questions of biological behavioural research, anthropology and aggression theory, and developed an enormous intellectual impact that reached beyond classical and religious studies.

Im Dialog mit Walter Burkert

Gewalt und Opfer

Literatur und Religion, 2

Gerald Siegmund

Christoph Meneghetti

Clemens Schuster

Jede Form der Kunst hat es notwendigerweise mit dem Fragmentarischen zu tun, insofern sie kulturelle Normen und Diskurse zerteilt und unterbricht. Die in diesem Sinne performativen Künste eröffnen Zwischenräume, in denen Verschiebungen des Gehörten, Gesehenen und Gefühlten möglich werden. Dies gilt für postdramatische Theaterformen in ihrem Verhältnis zum hegemonialen Diskurs ebenso wie für die prädramatischen Formen der antiken Tragödie. Der Band unternimmt den Versuch, beide Theaterformen in ihrem fragmentierenden Gestus zusammenzudenken, um sie als Inter-Medium zu begreifen, welches Fremderfahrung in der Selbsterfahrung möglich macht.__

Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne

Theater des Fragments

Roger Beck

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro

Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings. This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and putting together different methodological tools (intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on the quintessential question of love.

Anton Bierl

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