{"title":"What is Athens without Menander? The Comic Poet, the Courtesan, and the Production of Space in Alciphron's Letters","authors":"A. Peterson","doi":"10.1353/are.2022.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Spatial descriptions in Alciphron's Letters convey meaning even as they reinforce the Athenocentric view of the collection. This article considers the production of space in the Letters and how Alciphron uses the figure of the courtesan to expand the perspective of the collection to include the broader Hellenistic world. Although Alciphron's courtesans are closely tied to Athens, Book 4 contains several examples of correspondence that are marked as crossing the boundaries of Attica. In addition, a spatial reading of the epistolary exchange between Menander and Glycera reveals a latent tension in the collection between Athens and Alexandria as competing cultural centers.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"55 1","pages":"177 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARETHUSA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2022.0008","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Spatial descriptions in Alciphron's Letters convey meaning even as they reinforce the Athenocentric view of the collection. This article considers the production of space in the Letters and how Alciphron uses the figure of the courtesan to expand the perspective of the collection to include the broader Hellenistic world. Although Alciphron's courtesans are closely tied to Athens, Book 4 contains several examples of correspondence that are marked as crossing the boundaries of Attica. In addition, a spatial reading of the epistolary exchange between Menander and Glycera reveals a latent tension in the collection between Athens and Alexandria as competing cultural centers.
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Arethusa is known for publishing original literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, this distinguished journal often features special thematic issues.
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