The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-967056-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek authors from a range of disciplines. The thirteen chapters are divided into two main sections, the first of which focuses on the diverse forms of writing adopted by various ancient authors, and the different ways these forms were used to present and project an authorial voice. The second part of the volume considers questions regarding authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice. In particular, it looks at how later readers - and later authors - may understand the authority of a text's author or supposed author. The volume contains chapters on pseudo-epigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the ancient ascription of authorship to works of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marmodoro, Anna

Hill, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword

- List of Illustrations

- List of Contributors

- Introduction

- Part 1: The author's voice: presentation and function

- Section 1.1 The author's voice in the third person

- 1: Barbara Graziosi: The poet in the Iliad

- 2: Christopher Pelling: Xenophon's and Caesar's third-person narratives or are theya?

- Section 1.2: The author's voice in dialogue

- 3: William Allan and Adrian Kelly: Listening to many voices: Athenian tragedy as popular art

- 4: Sarah Culpepper Stroup: When I read my Cato, it is as if Cato speaks: the birth and evolution of Cicero's dialogic voice

- 5: Stephen Harrison: Author and speaker(s) in Horace's Satires 2

- Section 1.3: The author's voice in the first person

- 6: Georgina Longley: I, Polybius: self-conscious didacticism

- 7: Rhiannon Ash: Drip-feed invective: Pliny, self-fashioning, and the Regulus letters

- 8: Tim Whitmarsh: An I for an I: reading fictional autobiography

- Part 2: The author's voice: authority and ascription

- 9: Irene Peirano: Ille ego qui quondam: on authorial (an)onymity

- 10: Andrew Morrison: Authorship and authority in Greek fictional letters

- 11: Michael Erler: Plato's religious voice: Socrates as godsent, in Plato and the Platonists

- 12: Mark Edwards: When the dead speak: the refashioning of Ignatius of Antioch in the long recension of his letters

- 13: Michael Squire: Ars in their I's: authority and authorship in Graeco-Roman visual culture

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Marmodoro is a Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She has a background in ancient and medieval philosophy, and a strong research interest in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion. She has published journal articles in all these areas, and edited two collections of essays: The Metaphysics of Powers (2010) and The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (OUP, 2011). She also directs a large-scale research project based in Oxford, which investigates the nature of the fundamental building blocks of reality in ancient and contemporary thought.

Jonathan Hill is Templeton World Charity Foundation Research Officer, based in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He was previously Research Assistant in the Philosophy Faculty, working with Anna Marmodoro on a Leverhulme-funded project on the philosophy of religion. He is author of The Lion Handbook: the History of Christianity (2007) and Dictionary of Theologians: to 1308 (2010), and co-edited with Anna Marmodoro The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (OUP, 2011).