Speech in Ancient Greek Literature

Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume five

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Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and ‘speech in speech’ are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak.
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Front Matter
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Introduction Narratological Theory on Speech
Part 1 Epic and Elegiac Poetry
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Part 2 Historiography
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Part 3 Choral Lyric
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Part 4 Drama
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Part 5 Oratory
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Part 6 Philosophy
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Part 7 Biography
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Part 8 Christian Narrative
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Part 9 The Novel
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Irene J.F. de Jong is Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on Homer, Euripides, Herodotus and other Greek narrative texts. Recent publications include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (CUP 2001), Homer Iliad Book XXII (CUP 2012), and Narratology and Classics. A Practical Guide (OUP 2014).

Mathieu P. de Bakker is University Lecturer of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. He has published articles on Greek historiography, oratory and epigraphy, and is co-author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek.

Contributors are Mathieu P. de Bakker, Silvio Bär, Bruno Currie, Kristoffel Demoen, Michal Beth Dinkler, Evert van Emde Boas, Annette Harder, Jan Willem van Henten, Irene J.F. de Jong, Luuk Huitink, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, John Morgan, Judith Mossman, Luke V. Pitcher, Tim Rood, Aldo Tagliabue, Koen de Temmerman, Berenice Verhelst.
Preface

Introduction: Narratological Theory on Speech
 Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong

Part 1 Epic and Elegiac Poetry



1 Homer
 Irene de Jong

2 Hesiod
 Hugo Koning

3 The Homeric Hymns
 Irene de Jong

4 Apollonius of Rhodes
 Jacqueline Klooster

5 Callimachus
 Annette Harder

6 Theocritus
 Jacqueline Klooster

7 Quintus of Smyrna
 Silvio Bär

8 Nonnus
 Berenice Verhelst

Part 2 Historiography



9 Herodotus
 Mathieu de Bakker

10 Thucydides
 Tim Rood

11 Xenophon
 Luuk Huitink and Tim Rood

12 Polybius
 Luuk Pitcher

13 Appian
 Luuk Pitcher

14 Cassius Dio
 Luuk Pitcher

15 Herodian
 Luuk Pitcher

16 Josephus
 Jan Willem van Henten and Luuk Huitink

Part 3 Choral Lyric



17 Pindar and Bacchylides
 Bruno Currie

Part 4 Drama



18 Aeschylus
 Evert van Emde Boas

19 Sophocles
 Evert van Emde Boas

20 Euripides
 Evert van Emde Boas

Part 5 Oratory



21 Early Orators
 Luuk Huitink

22 Later Orators
 Mathieu de Bakker

Part 6 Philosophy



23 Plato
 Kathryn Morgan

Part 7 Biography



24 Plutarch
 Judith Mossman

25 Philostratus
 Kristoffel Demoen

Part 8 Christian Narrative



26 Gospels
 Michal Beth Dinkler

Part 9 The Novel



27 Chariton
 Koen de Temmerman

28 Xenophon of Ephesus
 Aldo Tagliabue

29 Achilles Tatius
 Koen de Temmerman

30 Longus
 John Morgan

31 Heliodorus
 John Morgan

Epilogue: Speech in Ancient Greek Narrative
 Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong

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All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative theory, literary history, comparative literature.
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