Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24960-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 359, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodkinson, Owen

Rosenmeyer, Patricia

Bracke, Evelien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative
A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon
1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie
3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera

B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous
4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison
5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon
6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera

II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives
A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity
7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh
8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason König
9) Lucian’s Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater

B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions
10) Odysseus’ Letter to Kalypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bär
11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath
12) Letters in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk

C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form
13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan
14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson

III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives
15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson
16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty

Bibliography
Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Owen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Greek epistolary literature, and a monograph on Philostratus: Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (Pensa Multimedia, 2011).

Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ph.D. (1987), Princeton University, is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin. She has published widely on Greek poetry, and two books on epistolary fiction: Ancient Epistolary Fictions (Cambridge, 2001) and Ancient Greek Literary Letters (Routledge, 2006).

Evelien Bracke, Ph.D. (2009), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, is currently the Latin and Greek tutor at Swansea University.

Contributors: Silvio Bär, Angus Bowie, Deborah Gera, Pamela Gordon, Owen Hodkinson, Dmitri Kasprzyk, Jason König, Jane McLarty, John Morgan, A.D. Morrison, Ryan Olson, Orlando Poltera, Ian Repath, P.A. Rosenmeyer, Niall Slater, Tim Whitmarsh