Papers by panagiotis roilos
Greek Hauntologies and Disjointed Times: Temporality and Tropes of Indebtedness from British Aestheticism to the Current European Crisis
Abstract:This article explores the ways in which the cultural capital of classical antiquity info... more Abstract:This article explores the ways in which the cultural capital of classical antiquity informs political, ideological, and literary discourses on the current multifaceted crisis in Europe. Such discourses are also compared to late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century aestheticist interrogations of hegemonic, capitalist economic principles. The main focus of the paper is on Greece and its ambivalent position in Europe, which the author defines in terms of what he calls ‘paramarginality’. In this article, it is argued that ‘paramarginality’ in contemporary ideological debates is closely connected to problematised conceptualisations of time and indebtedness. Economic crisis is, thus, often perceived and represented also as a crisis of temporality — a major symptom of post-capitalist dividualism.
Book Reviews by panagiotis roilos
Alberto Parisi, Review of Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos, (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill, Leiden and Boston 2024), EIRENE, STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287. Review by Alberto Parisi of Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos, (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill, Leiden and Boston 2024) EIRENE, STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA, 2025
Review by Alberto Parisi of Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscur... more Review by Alberto Parisi of Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill, Leiden and Boston 2024), EIRENE, STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287.
Books by panagiotis roilos
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel, Harvard University Press
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel, 2005
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-c... more This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in twelfth-century Byzantine society. By examining the indigenous rhetorical concept of amphoteroglossia, this book probes unexplored aspects of the re-inscription of inherited allegorical, comic, and rhetorical modes in the Komnenian novels, and offers new methodological directions for the study of Byzantine secular literature in its cultural complexities. The creative re-appropriation of the established generic conventions of the ancient Greek novel by the medieval Greek novelists, it is argued in this wide-ranging study, has invested these works with a dynamic dialogism. In this book, Roilos shows that this interdiscursivity functions on two pivotal axes: on the paradigmatic axis of previously sanctioned ancient Greek and—less evidently but equally significantly—Christian literature, and on the syntagmatic axis of allusions to the broader twelfth-century Byzantine cultural context.
REVIEW:
"Amphoteroglossia, in its analysis of rhetorical manipulations, generic complexity, and the various tensions made possible by the novels' "discursive plasticity", is undoubtedly the most thorough and most perceptive study ever written of these works, and one from which the Byzantine writer comes through forcefully as one fiercely determined to show his independence while artistically keeping within the overlying strictures of the rhetoric of the Second Sophistic; but it is an independence susceptible to appreciation only by highly sophisticated readers, both ancient and modern. Amphoteroglossia is, moreover, destined to retain for decades to come the priceless ability to provoke further analysis and evaluation."
—A. Littlewood, Speculum
Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos, (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill: Leiden and Boston 2024)
Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos, (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill: Leiden and Boston 2024), 2024
The studies included in the book Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual — written in honor of Pr... more The studies included in the book Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual — written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar — shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/ mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts — from early twentieth-century painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.
CONTENTS
Part 1. Antiquity
Section 1. Archaeology and History of Art
1. Trojans and Phrygians between East and West / C. Brian Rose
2. Attic Late Geometric Iconography and Homer's Shield Description: Two Answers to a Crisis / Burkhard Fehr
3. What's in a Name: From Ashurbanipal to Sardanapalus / Ada Cohen
Section 2. Anthropology, Aesthetics, and Antiquity
4. Excavating Foucault: Further toward an Anthropology of Reception / James D. Faubion
5. Bee Stung: Plato's Love of the Poets / Elaine Scarry
Section 3. Ritual, Performance, Poetics, History
6. Epithalamia in Alcman / Felix Meister
7. Pittacus the Scapegoat and the Disease of Mytilene / Ippokratis Kantzios
8. Antigone the Ephebe / Adriana Brook
9. The Cult of Augustus in Athens: Contradictory Factors and Features / Michael Paschalis
Section 4. Excavating Texts
10. Reconstructing the Alexandrian Editions of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon / Alexander Dale
11. A "Parochial" Poet in the Making: Twentieth-century Receptions of Corinna, the Poet Formerly Known as "Divine" / Thea S. Thorsen
12. Xenophon on the Psyche / David Konstan
13. Artemis or Atalanta? An Emendation in Meleager AP 7.421 / Kathryn Gutzwiller
Part 2. Reception Studies
Section 5. Performing the Past
14. Curtains for Agamemnon: New Light on His Death in Bed / Malcolm Davies
15. Reperforming the Myth of Phaedra in Greece, 1918-2021 / Erasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou
16. Translator, Poet, Botcher?: Raoul Schrott's German Iliad and Its Popular and Scholarly Reception / Silvio Bär
17. The Aristotelean Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism: Askēsis and Capitalism Today / William Tilleczek
Section 6. Mythogenesis
18. Surrealism in France and Mythogenesis / Wolfgang Asholt.
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REVIEW:
"Amphoteroglossia, in its analysis of rhetorical manipulations, generic complexity, and the various tensions made possible by the novels' "discursive plasticity", is undoubtedly the most thorough and most perceptive study ever written of these works, and one from which the Byzantine writer comes through forcefully as one fiercely determined to show his independence while artistically keeping within the overlying strictures of the rhetoric of the Second Sophistic; but it is an independence susceptible to appreciation only by highly sophisticated readers, both ancient and modern. Amphoteroglossia is, moreover, destined to retain for decades to come the priceless ability to provoke further analysis and evaluation."
—A. Littlewood, Speculum
CONTENTS
Part 1. Antiquity
Section 1. Archaeology and History of Art
1. Trojans and Phrygians between East and West / C. Brian Rose
2. Attic Late Geometric Iconography and Homer's Shield Description: Two Answers to a Crisis / Burkhard Fehr
3. What's in a Name: From Ashurbanipal to Sardanapalus / Ada Cohen
Section 2. Anthropology, Aesthetics, and Antiquity
4. Excavating Foucault: Further toward an Anthropology of Reception / James D. Faubion
5. Bee Stung: Plato's Love of the Poets / Elaine Scarry
Section 3. Ritual, Performance, Poetics, History
6. Epithalamia in Alcman / Felix Meister
7. Pittacus the Scapegoat and the Disease of Mytilene / Ippokratis Kantzios
8. Antigone the Ephebe / Adriana Brook
9. The Cult of Augustus in Athens: Contradictory Factors and Features / Michael Paschalis
Section 4. Excavating Texts
10. Reconstructing the Alexandrian Editions of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon / Alexander Dale
11. A "Parochial" Poet in the Making: Twentieth-century Receptions of Corinna, the Poet Formerly Known as "Divine" / Thea S. Thorsen
12. Xenophon on the Psyche / David Konstan
13. Artemis or Atalanta? An Emendation in Meleager AP 7.421 / Kathryn Gutzwiller
Part 2. Reception Studies
Section 5. Performing the Past
14. Curtains for Agamemnon: New Light on His Death in Bed / Malcolm Davies
15. Reperforming the Myth of Phaedra in Greece, 1918-2021 / Erasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou
16. Translator, Poet, Botcher?: Raoul Schrott's German Iliad and Its Popular and Scholarly Reception / Silvio Bär
17. The Aristotelean Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism: Askēsis and Capitalism Today / William Tilleczek
Section 6. Mythogenesis
18. Surrealism in France and Mythogenesis / Wolfgang Asholt.