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Prolepsis in Ancient Greek Narrative
Definitions, Forms and Effects
Series: - The Language of Classical Literature, Volume: 40
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive study of prolepsis in narratives written in ancient Greek, ranging from Homer to the late antique author Colluthus, with the inclusion of Second Temple Jewish Literature. Structuralist narratology defines prolepsis as the narration in advance of an event that takes place later in the story. The papers collected in this volume start from this approach, but move beyond it by exploring a wide range of new definitions, forms and readerly effects of prolepsis. Several contributions draw on postclassical narratological approaches and focus on cognitive aspects of reading, narrative virtuality, and readerly (un)certainty that stems from prolepses.
Saskia Schomber is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing her PhD dissertation (defended in 2024) on the narrative aesthetics of late Greek epic for publication. Her research interests further include postclassical narratology and critical approaches to Classics.
Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophonâs Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis).
Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue
Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophonâs Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis).
Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Narrating Ahead
âSaskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue
2 Additive Anachronies in Homer
âAlexander C. Loney
3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotusâ Histories
âIrene J.F. de Jong
4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophonâs Narrative of Mantinea (Hell. 7.5): The Fog of War
âLuuk Huitink
5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophoclesâ Oedipus Tyrannus
âEvert van Emde Boas
6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2â¯Maccabees: That Was Now, This Is Then
âR.Gillian Glass
7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodianâs History of the Empire after Marcus: The Paradox of Anticipation
âMario Baumann
8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and Closure
âBenedek Kruchió
9 The Inset Stories of Longusâ Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual Prolepses
âAldo Tagliabue
10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorusâ Aethiopica
âJonas Grethlein
11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthusâ Abduction of Helen: Ghost Stories and Virtual Narratives
âSaskia Schomber
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Narrating Ahead
âSaskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue
2 Additive Anachronies in Homer
âAlexander C. Loney
3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotusâ Histories
âIrene J.F. de Jong
4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophonâs Narrative of Mantinea (Hell. 7.5): The Fog of War
âLuuk Huitink
5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophoclesâ Oedipus Tyrannus
âEvert van Emde Boas
6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2â¯Maccabees: That Was Now, This Is Then
âR.Gillian Glass
7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodianâs History of the Empire after Marcus: The Paradox of Anticipation
âMario Baumann
8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and Closure
âBenedek Kruchió
9 The Inset Stories of Longusâ Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual Prolepses
âAldo Tagliabue
10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorusâ Aethiopica
âJonas Grethlein
11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthusâ Abduction of Helen: Ghost Stories and Virtual Narratives
âSaskia Schomber
Index
This book targets classicists working on structuralist and cognitive narratology, scholars and graduate students interested in the selected ancient texts, literary scholars discussing uncertainty, and narratologists working on modern literature.