Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama: Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg

ISBN-13: 9780367110635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 392 str.

Jonathan Price; Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

Opis

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors.

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Introduction  Part I  A. Epic – Text  1. Homer’s Innocent Aeneas and Traditions of the Troad  2. Formulaic Diction and Contextual Relevance: Notes on the Meaning of Formulaic Epithets in Iliad 1  3. Babies in the Iliad Book 6: Astyanax and Dionysus  4. Reading Emotional Intelligence: Antilochus and Achilles in the Iliad  5. Two Mothers: Eos and Thetis in the Aithiopis  6. Seeing the Unseen in the Iliad  B. Epic – Intertext  7. The melody of Homeric Performance  8. Helen of Troy—or of Lacedaemon? The Trojan War and Royal Succession in the Aegean Bronze Age  9. Substitute, Sacrifice and Sidekick: A Note on the Comparative Method and Homer 10. The Birth of Literary Criticism (Herodotus 2.116-17) and the Roots of Homeric Neoanalysis  11. Iopas, Vergil’s Phoenician Bard (on Aeneid 1.740-747)  12. Homer between Celsus, Origen and the Jews of Late Antique Palaestina  13 Unreportable Tokens, Speech Representation and Conventions of Textual Composition  Part II  A. Drama – Text  14. Boughs and Daggers: Reading "Hand" in Aeschylus’ Suppliants and the Danaid Trilogy  15. Episodic Tragedy, Antigone, and Indeterminacy at the End of Euripides’ Phoenissae  16. Dramatic Contexts and Literary Fiction in Euripides, Heracles 1340-46  17. Fictions of Space from Old to New Comedy  B. Drama – Intertext  18. The Sphinx: A Greco-Phoenician Hybrid  19 Inviting Socrates: the prologs of Republic and the two Symposia