A Companion to Greek Literature

ISBN-13: 9781119088615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 576 str.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xiAbbreviations xvIntroduction: A Companion to Greek Literature 1Martin Hose and David SchenkerPart I Production and Transmission 71 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity 9Lucio Del Corso2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission 27Richard H. ArmstrongPart II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System 413 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature 43Steve Reece4 Literature in the Archaic Age 58Timothy Power5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece 77James McGlew6 Literature in the Hellenistic World 89Anatole Mori7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature 112Jason König8 The Encounter with Christianity 126Jan StengerPart III Genres 1399 Greek Epic 141Hanna M. Roisman10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac 155James Bradley Wells11 The Ethics of Greek Drama 175Richard Rader12 Epigram and Minor Genres 190Regina Höschele13 Oratory: Practice and Theory 205Mike Edwards14 Historiography and Biography 217Antonis Tsakmakis15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle 235Martin Hose16 The Novel 256Stefan Tilg17 Technical Literature 266Thorsten FögenPart IV The Players 28118 The Creators of Literature 283Mary Lefkowitz19 Users of Literature 296René Nünlist20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature 310David SchenkerPart V The Places 32321 Places of Production 325Martin Hose22 Places of Presentation 344Manuel Baumbach23 Topos and Topoi 353Suzanne SaïdPart VI Literature and Knowledge 37124 Literature and Truth 373Martin Hose25 Knowledge of Self 386Daniela Dueck26 Explicit Knowledge 401Markus Asper27 Implicit Knowledge 415David Konstan28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations 427Markus DubischarPart VII Literature and Aesthetics 44129 The Language of Greek Literature 443Andreas Willi30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation 461Nicholas Baechle31 The Function of Literature 476Victoria WohlPart VIII The Reception of Greek Literature 48932 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy 491Emily Wilson33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity 511Edith HallIndex 534

O autorze

Martin Hose is Professor of Greek Literature at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany and Fellow of the Bavarian Academy. He is the author of Euripides (2008) and of books on Greek historiography, Aristotle's fragments, and Synesius.David Schenker is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. He has published many articles on Aeschylus, Euripides, and Plato.