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The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric

The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric

Scheid, John
Svenbro, Jesper
Volk, Carol

Paperback

Series: Revealing Antiquity, Book 9

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0674005783
ISBN13: 9780674005785
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 16 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman--an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing--even fabricating--the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought--a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

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