Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature

Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Vol. 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35630-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 411, 708 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1173 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors spanning a large historical period (from Homer to Heliodorus) and a variety of literary genres (epic, elegy, historiography, choral lyric, drama, oratory, philosophy, biography, and novel). The book’s aim is not only to describe these devices, but also to investigate their effects and the implications of their use for our interpretation of the texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De,Temmerman, Koen

van Emde Boas, Evert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Note on Citation and Abbreviations
Glossary

Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: An Introduction
Koen De Temmerman and Evert van Emde Boas

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

Historiography

7 Herodotus
Mathieu de Bakker

8 Thucydides
Tim Rood

9 Xenophon
Tim Rood

10 Polybius
Luke Pitcher

11 Appian
Luke Pitcher

12 Cassius Dio
Luke Pitcher

13 Herodian
Luke Pitcher

14 Josephus
Jan-Willem van Henten and Luuk Huitink

15 Pausanias
Maria Pretzler

Choral Lyric

16 Pindar and Bacchylides
Bruno Currie

Drama

17 Aeschylus
Evert van Emde Boas

18 Sophocles
Michael Lloyd

19 Euripides
Evert van Emde Boas

20 Aristophanes
Angus Bowie

21 Menander
Peter Brown

Oratory

22 Lysias
Mathieu de Bakker

23 Aeschines and Demosthenes
Nancy Worman

Philosophy

24 Plato
Kathryn Morgan

Biography

25 Xenophon
Luuk Huitink

26 Plutarch
Judith Mossman

27 Philostratus
Kristoffel Demoen

Between Philosophy and Rhetoric

28 Dio Chrysostom
Dimitri Kasprzyk

29 Lucian
Owen Hodkinson

The Novel

30 Chariton
Koen De Temmerman

31 Xenophon of Ephesus
Koen De Temmerman

32 Achilles Tatius
Koen De Temmerman

33 Longus
John Morgan

34 Heliodorus
John Morgan

Epilogue
Koen De Temmerman and Evert van Emde Boas

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Koen De Temmerman, Ph.D. (2006) in Classics, Ghent University, is Professor of Ancient Literatures and European Literary History at that university. He has published extensively on (characterization in) ancient fiction, and is the author of Crafting Characters: Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP, 2014) and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography (OUP, forthcoming).

Evert van Emde Boas completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College, 2011), before going on to hold various teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, the University of Groningen, and Leiden University. He currently serves as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Calleva Research Centre at Magdalen College, Oxford. His research focuses primarily on the application of modern linguistic and cognitive approaches to ancient Greek literature. He is the author of Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra (OUP, 2017) and the lead author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP, forthcoming 2017).

Contributors are: Mathieu de Bakker, Angus Bowie, Peter Brown, Bruno Currie, Kristoffel Demoen, Koen De Temmerman, Evert van Emde Boas, Annette Harder, Jan-Willem van Henten, Owen Hodkinson, Luuk Huitink, Irene de Jong, Dimitri Kasprzyk, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, Michael Lloyd, John Morgan, Kathryn Morgan, Judith Mossman, Luke Pitcher, Maria Pretzler, Tim Rood, and Nancy Worman.