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Prometheus Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...found in folktales throughout the world, simultaneously a deceiver and a patron of invention. Prometheus attempts to deceive Zeus, presenting him with a supper of oxen bones wrapped in fat while reserving the best edible parts for the men who share the gods’ table. Not fooled, Zeus angrily banishes mortals forevermore from divine feasts and makes them offer sacrifice instead, a ritual symbol of divine superiority in contrast to human reliance on nourishment. As a consequence of Prometheus’ trick, Zeus also conceals fire from mankind, but later Prometheus...
comedy (Greek), Old, Middle, and New Reference library
Kenneth James Dover, William Geoffrey Arnott, and Peter George McCarthy Brown
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...been two main types of such burlesque: straight travesty of a myth, with or without political innuendo, and parody of tragic (especially Euripides ’) versions. The aim was often to reinterpret a myth in contemporary terms; thus Heracles is asked to select a book from Linus’ library of classical authors (Alexis fr. 140 KA), and Pelops ( see olympia §1 ) complains about the meagre meals of Greece by contrast with the Persian king’s roast camel (Antiphanes fr. 172 KA). Popular also were riddles, long descriptions of food and feasting (often in...
Symeon the Holy Fool of Emesa, S. Reference library
Richard Price
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...Holy Fool of Emesa, S. ( Symeon Salus ) (mid- 6th cent .) The first of the ‘holy fools’. There is an authentic but brief treatment of Symeon in Evagrius Scholasticus ( HE IV, 34), which tells of him feasting in taverns while fasting in private and (innocently) frequenting prostitutes. In the 640s Bishop Leontius of Neapolis wrote a substantial Life , which misdates Symeon to the end of the 6th century . His work, partly legendary, partly fictitious, is important not as history but for bequeathing to Byzantium the new category of ‘holy fools’, who...
festivals and calendars Reference library
Oliver Nicholson, Nancy Khalek, Oliver Nicholson, Roland Steinacher, Catherine Hezser, Nicholas Baker-Brian, Mark Gustafson, Oktor Skjærvø, and Alexander Skinner
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (1995). F. Graf , ‘Fights about Festivals: Libanius and John Chrysostom on the Kalendae Ianuariae in Antioch’, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 13 (2012), 175–86. M. Harris , Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (2011), 11–24. M. Kantirea , ‘Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity’, in A. Beihammer et al., eds., Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives (2013), 37–50. R. A. Markus , The End of Ancient...
saints’ Lives Reference library
Sarah Insley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... by Palladius of Helenopolis ( c . 420 ), the Religious History by Theodoret of Cyrrhus ( c . 440 ), and the Lives of the Fathers written by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century . As the Life developed as a genre in its own right in the 5th and 6th centuries , subgenres of Lives begin to emerge, corpora of texts devoted to specific hagiographical types, such as Lives of founders of monasteries , of bishops , of stylites , of fools for Christ , and of nuns who lived as men, such as S. Mary of Egypt . Lives of saints continued to be...
