Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

by Athena Kirk

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.

272 pages, Hardcover

Published March 11, 2021

Reviews

[moon]

i don’t know that i wanna be the only goodreads review of this at the time of writing but i’m not a classicist nor particularly well versed but this was delightful and engrossing and i love the writing and i love that it made me feel . the epilogue makes me wish i was more well versed, to respond to that call. chapters 4 and 6 are my faves i think,, but they’re all great. love the homer chapter too. so glad i stumbled upon this