Hose / Schenker A Companion to Greek Literature

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-88606-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensiveintroduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms producedin the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginningfrom the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the ByzantineEmpire.
* Features contributions from a wide range of established expertsand emerging scholars of Greek literature
* Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literaryforms produced by the ancient Greeks--including epic and lyricpoetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel,and technical literature
* Includes readings that address the production and transmissionof ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, andmuch more
* Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovativeways

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hose, Martin

Schenker, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature 1
Martin Hose and David Schenker
Part I Production and Transmission 7
1 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity 9
Lucio Del Corso
2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission 27
Richard H. Armstrong
Part II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System 41
3 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature 43
Steve Reece
4 Literature in the Archaic Age 58
Timothy Power
5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece 77
James McGlew
6 Literature in the Hellenistic World 89
Anatole Mori
7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature 112
Jason König
8 The Encounter with Christianity 126
Jan Stenger
Part III Genres 139
9 Greek Epic 141
Hanna M. Roisman
10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac 155
James Bradley Wells
11 The Ethics of Greek Drama 175
Richard Rader
12 Epigram and Minor Genres 190
Regina Höschele
13 Oratory: Practice and Theory 205
Mike Edwards
14 Historiography and Biography 217
Antonis Tsakmakis
15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle 235
Martin Hose
16 The Novel 256
Stefan Tilg
17 Technical Literature 266
Thorsten Fögen
Part IV The Players 281
18 The Creators of Literature 283
Mary Lefkowitz
19 Users of Literature 296
René Nünlist
20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature 310
David Schenker
Part V The Places 323
21 Places of Production 325
Martin Hose
22 Places of presentation 344
Manuel Baumbach
23 Topos and Topoi 353
Suzanne Saïd
Part VI Literature and Knowledge 371
24 Literature and Truth 373
Martin Hose
25 Knowledge of Self 386
Daniela Dueck
26 Explicit Knowledge 401
Markus Asper
27 Implicit Knowledge 415
David Konstan
28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations 427
Markus Dubischar
Part VII Literature and Aesthetics 441
29 The Language of Greek Literature 443
Andreas Willi
30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation 461
Nicholas Baechle
31 The Function of Literature 476
Victoria Wohl
Part VIII The Reception of Greek Literature 489
32 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy 491
Emily Wilson
33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity 511
Edith Hall
Index 534

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Hose is Professor of Greek Literature at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany and Fellow of the Bavarian Academy. He is the author of Euripides (2008) and of books on Greek historiography, Aristotle's fragments, and Synesius.
David Schenker is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. He has published many articles on Aeschylus, Euripides, and Plato.