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Defining Greek Narrative

Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART I DEFINING THE GREEK TRADITION -- 2 BEYOND AUERBACH: HOMERIC NARRATIVE AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH -- 3 HOMERIC BATTLE NARRATIVE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- 4 NARRATIVE FOCUS AND ELUSIVE THOUGHT IN HOMER...

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Main Author: Cairns, Douglas L. (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2014
Series:Edinburgh Leventis Studies
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=1698585
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Defining Greek Narrative
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART I DEFINING THE GREEK TRADITION -- 2 BEYOND AUERBACH: HOMERIC NARRATIVE AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH -- 3 HOMERIC BATTLE NARRATIVE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- 4 NARRATIVE FOCUS AND ELUSIVE THOUGHT IN HOMER -- 5 STRUCTURE AS INTERPRETATION IN THE HOMERIC ODYSSEY -- PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK TRADITION -- 6 EXEMPLARITY AND NARRATIVE IN THE GREEK TRADITION -- 7 'WHERE DO I BEGIN?': AN ODYSSEAN NARRATIVE STRATEGY AND ITS AFTERLIFE -- 8 SOME ANCIENT VIEWS ON NARRATIVE, ITS STRUCTURE AND WORKING -- 9 WHO, SAPPHO? -- 10 THE CREATIVE IMPACT OF THE OCCASION: PINDAR'S SONGS FOR THE EMMENIDS AND HORACE'S ODES 1.2 AND 4.2 -- 11 NARRATIVE ON THE GREEK TRAGIC STAGE -- 12 STOCK SITUATIONS, TOPOI AND THE GREEKNESS OF GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 13 HELIODORUS THE HELLENE -- PART III BEYOND GREECE -- 14 LIVY READING POLYBIUS: ADAPTING GREEK NARRATIVE TO ROMAN HISTORY -- 15 PAMELA AND PLATO: ANCIENT AND MODERN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES -- 16 THE ANONYMOUS TRAVELLER IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE: A GREEK MEME? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
An examination of what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative traditions of a wide range of ancient Greek literary genres
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (393 pages)
ISBN:9780748680115