Table of Contents

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

1. Chapter 10
   1. Table 10.1 Lyric Genres and Lyric Artists

List of Illustrations

1. Chapter 01
   1. Figure 1.1 A fragment of a speech written on papyrus for a certain “Appio,” dated to the sixth–seventh century CE. Florence, The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms PSI XIV 1399. On concession of the MiBACT. Any further reproduction by any means is prohibited.
   2. Figure 1.2 The so-called Sappho Ostrakon. A pottery sherd dated to the second century BCE, a source for Sappho fragment 2V. Florence, The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms PSI XIII 1300. On concession of the MiBACT. Any further reproduction by any means is prohibited.
2. Chapter 03
   1. Map 3.1 Greece and Asia Minor.
   2. Map 3.2 Italy and the West.
3. Chapter 06
   1. Map 6.1 The Hellenistic World.
   2. Map 6.2 The Hellenistic kingdoms (c. 240 BCE).
4. Chapter 29
   1. Map 29.1 Greek dialects.

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