A Companion to Greek Literature by Hose, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Abbreviations

1. Abbreviations of Technical Terms and Modern Reference Works & Editions 2. Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works

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 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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 2: A Wound, not a World

1. The Extent of Our Known Losses 2. Tales of Survival and Recovery 3. Transmission: Copying, Editing, and Textual Criticism REFERENCES FURTHER READING

PART II: Greek Literature as a Dynamic System

CHAPTER 3: Orality and Literacy

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

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CHAPTER 6: Literature in the Hellenistic World

1. Literary Contexts 2. Literary Constructs REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 7: Greek Literature in the Roman World

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 FURTHER READING REFERENCES

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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 11: The Ethics of Greek Drama

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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 REFERENCES FURTHER READINGS

CHAPTER 13: Oratory

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

CHAPTER 15: Philosophical Writing

1. Monologic Instruction 2. The Dialogue 3. Special Forms of Philosophical Writing 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 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 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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 22: Places of presentation

1. Dais 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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

PART VI: Literature and Knowledge

CHAPTER 24: Literature and Truth

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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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 26: Explicit Knowledge

1. Archaic Didactic Poetry 2. The Career of Prose 3. The Aesthetic Presentation of Explicit Knowledge REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 27: Implicit Knowledge

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CHAPTER 28: Preserved Knowledge

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

1. The Shield: Pleasure and New Realizations of Traditional Devices 2. Apollonius and ‘Textualized’ Epic. 3. Euripides and the Performance Culture of Athenian Drama REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 31: The Function of Literature

1. To Improve Men in the City 2. The Longing for a Poet 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 REFERENCES FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 33: The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity

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