Too much is too much?

• Verfasst von: Grethlein, Jonas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Too much is too much?
• Titelzusatz: Koros in ancient criticism and the poetics of scale
• Verf.angabe: Jonas Grethlein (University of Heidelberg)
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: autumn 2023
• Umfang: 25 S.
• Fussnoten: "Koros" ist im Titel in griechischen Buchstaben geschrieben ; Gesehen am 17.07.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: TAPA
• Ort Quelle: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: 153(2023), 2, Seite 363-387
• ISSN Quelle: 2575-7199
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: ancient criticism
• Sach-SW: Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• Sach-SW: Pindar
• Sach-SW: poetics of scale
• Sach-SW: satiety
• Sach-SW: scholia
• Sach-SW: size
• Sach-SW: Κόρος
• K10plus-PPN: 1895609046

Abstract

The article explores the uses of κόρος (satiety, surfeit) in ancient criticism as part of a poetics of scale. It first shows that κόρος was applied to a wide range of different scales and used for an equally large array of phenomena. Then it suggests that Pindar's references to κόρος in Abbruchformeln (break-off formulas) may have been the origin of its later deployment by critics. Underneath the poetics of scale encapsulated in κόρος, it is finally argued, there is an entanglement of aesthetics with ethics that invites further inquiries.