Companion to Greek Literature

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature -- 1. Companion versus History of Literature -- 2. What is "Greek Literature"? -- 3. The Concept of this Companion -- 4. Acknowledgme...

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Main Author: Hose, Martin (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Somerset : Wiley , 2014
Series:Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Companion to Greek Literature
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature -- 1. Companion versus History of Literature -- 2. What is "Greek Literature"? -- 3. The Concept of this Companion -- 4. Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part I Production and Transmission -- Chapter 1 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity -- 1. Overview -- 2. Writing Materials -- 3. Writing Practices and Text Composition -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission -- 1. The Extent of Our Known Losses -- 2. Tales of Survival and Recovery -- 3. Transmission: Copying, Editing, and Textual Criticism -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System -- Chapter 3 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature -- 1. Oral Features of Ancient Greek Epic -- 2. Oral-Formulaic Theory and Homeric Epic -- 3. Internal Evidence for Orality in Homeric Epic -- 4. From Oral Performance to Written Text -- 5. Homeric Epic as Written Text -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Literature in the Archaic Age -- 1. Literature, Lyric, Performance -- 2. Rhapsody and Citharody -- 3. An Interactive Performance Culture -- 4. Rhapsodes and Citharodes in Performance -- 5. Sympotic Lyric -- 6. Lesbian Melic -- 7. Lydian Glamour -- 8. The Tyrant's Symposium -- 9. Choral Melic -- 10. Epinician Melic -- 11. Public Elegy and Iambus -- 12. Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 Literature in the Hellenistic World -- 1. Literary Contexts -- 2. Literary Constructs -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading.
2. Symposium -- 3. Festival -- 4. Court -- 5. School -- 6. Literature Presented in Public Space -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Topos and Topoi -- 1. Iliad -- 2. Odyssey -- 3. Tragic Troy -- 4. Tragic Athens -- 5. Comic Athens -- 6. The Setting of Plato's Phaedrus -- 7. Bucolic Landscape in Theocritus's Idylls -- 8. The Pastoral Romance of Longus -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VI Literature and Knowledge -- Chapter 24 Literature and Truth -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25 Knowledge of Self -- 1. Literature's Power to Define Borderlines -- 2. Defining the "Self": "Self" and Other -- 3. Humans and Gods -- 4. Humans and Beasts -- 5. Humans and Monsters -- 6. Men and Women -- 7. Greeks and Barbarians -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26 Explicit Knowledge -- 1. Archaic Didactic Poetry -- 2. The Career of Prose -- 3. The Aesthetic Presentation of Explicit Knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 Implicit Knowledge -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Summaries -- 3. Compilations -- 4. The Communicative Function of Summaries and Compilations -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VII Literature and Aesthetics -- Chapter 29 The Language of Greek Literature -- 1. Prehistoric Roots -- 2. Literature and Dialect(s) -- 3. The Language of Epic, Elegy, and Epigram -- 4. The Language of Choral and Monodic Lyric -- 5. The Language of Iambus, Comedy, and Tragedy -- 6. The Language of Prose -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation -- 1. The Shield: Pleasure and New Realizations of Traditional Devices -- 2. Apollonius and 'Textualized' Epic.
3. Euripides and the Performance Culture of Athenian Drama -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31 The Function of Literature -- 1. To Improve Men in the City -- 2. The Longing for a Poet -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VIII The Reception of Greek Literature -- Chapter 32 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Beginnings: Germany and Britain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century -- 3. American Hellenic History -- 4. Greek Literary Studies as a Subset of Literary and Cultural Studies -- 5. Performance -- Canonicity -- Theory -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.
Chapter 15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle -- 1. Monologic Instruction -- 2. The Dialogue -- 3. Special Forms of Philosophical Writing -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 The Novel -- 1. An Un-classical Research Field and a Problem of Terminology -- 2. The Lack of an Ancient Theory and the Question of Genre -- 3. The Love Novel and the Importance of the "Big Five" -- 4. Fragmentary Love Novels -- 5. Family Novels -- 6. Lowlife Novels -- 7. Fringe Novels -- 8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel -- 9. On the Origin and Significance of the Greek (Love) Novel -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 Technical Literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is "Technical Literature"? -- 3. Approaches to Ancient Technical Literature -- 4. Some General Characteristics of Ancient Technical Texts -- 5. Some Examples of Greek Technical Writing -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV The Players -- Chapter 18 The Creators of Literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Archaic Poets -- 3. Fifth-century Poets -- 4. Prose Writers -- 5. Writers in the Hellenistic Era -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Users of Literature -- 1. Hearers and Readers -- 2. Scholars and Interpreters: Ancient Literary Criticism -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature -- 1. Homeric Song and Singers in Homer -- 2. Archaic Age Patronage -- 3. Classical Athens: Civic Patronage -- 4. Hellenistic Patronage -- 5. Patronage for Greeks in Rome -- 6. Opposition -- 7. Responses to Plato -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part V The Places -- Chapter 21 Places of Production -- 1. Sparta -- 2. Miletus -- 3. Athens -- 4. Alexandria -- 5. Pergamon -- 6. Rome -- 7. Constantinople -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Places of presentation -- 1. Dais.
Chapter 7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature -- 1. Intellectual Culture -- 2. The City -- 3. Rome -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 The Encounter with Christianity -- 1. Two Different Cultures? -- 2. Distance and Rejection -- 3. The Correct Use -- 4. The Decisive Shift -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Genres -- Chapter 9 Greek Epic -- I -- 1. Iliad and Odyssey -- 2. Theogony and Works and Days -- II -- 3. Aratus's Phaenomena -- 4. Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica -- 5. Battle of the Frogs and Mice (Batrachomyomachia) -- III -- 6. Quintus's The Fall of Troy -- 7. Nonnus's Dionysiaca -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Field of Greek Lyric -- 3. Iambos -- 4. Elegy -- 5. Melos -- 6. Rethinking Ancient Greek Lyric -- 7. "Lyric" Genre -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 The Ethics of Greek Drama -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Epigram and Minor Genres -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Stone to Book -- 3. The Textuality of Epigram Books -- 4. The Traveling Reader -- 5. The New Posidippus -- 6. A Sequential Reading of Lucillius Anth. Pal. 11.75-7 -- 7. "The Sting of Love": Variations on a Theme -- 8. Technopaegnia -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Oratory: Practice and Theory -- 1. The Early Development of Oratory and Rhetoric -- 2. The Canon of Ten Attic Orators -- 3. Rhetorical Theory of the Classical Period -- 4. Oratory and Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period -- 5. Oratory and Rhetoric in the Roman Empire -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Historiography and Biography -- 1. Historiography -- 2. Biography -- References -- Further Reading.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (575 pages)
ISBN:9781118885956

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