Ebook: Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture: the comparative perspective

The resurrection of the divine assembly and the divine title el in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Out of the mainstream / Margalit Finkelberg -- The submersion of mythography / Robert L. Fowler -- The emergence of Athens / Manuela Giordano -- The purification of Orestes at Troezen / Luca Pucci -- Literacy and orality in the attic orators / Andrea Taddei -- With Pausanias (and others) in the Agora of Sparta / Emanuele Greco -- Beyond the boundary of the poetic language: Enigmas and riddles in Greek and Roman culture / Salvatore Monda -- Cantare cantilenae / Maurizio Bettini -- Modes of scriptural and personal authority in late antique religion / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Gnosticism and radical feminism / Jonathan Cahana -- Submerged literature in China / Pietro De Laurentis -- Mapping submerged territories / Roberta Denaro -- Cultural continuities / Vito Teti;The book is the third and concluding part of the investigation on Submerged literature in ancient Greece and beyond. The book expands the inquiry to a comparative perspective, in order to test the validity and usefulness of the hermeneutical approach in other fields and cultures. The comparative case studies deal with gnostic text, Qumran texts, the Hebrew Bible, Early Christianity, Cuneiform Texts, Arabic-Islamic literature, ancient Rome, Medieval China, and contemporary southern Italy. The volume tackles themes and questions relating to author and authorship, cultural translation and transmission, the interaction between orality and literacy, myth and folktale. A particular emphasis is given to anthropological themes and methods. In this vein, the book further explores dynamics of emergence and submersion in ancient Greece, including cultural trends promoted respectively by Sparta and Athens. The volume provides the reader with a wide range of tools and methodological suggestions to reconstruct literary phenomena and cultural processes in a given historical epoch and context, as well as offering new insights for both classical and comparative studies.