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Book SynopsisThe literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome.
Trade ReviewThis volume consists of a collection of eleven papers on genre and generic definition in Greek and Roman literature. The contributions are divergent in both subject and approach, ranging from seldom considered, even single-instance genres, to the reception of generic traditions in Hellenistic and Roman poetry...The volume contains scholarship of a high standard with stimulating contributions both in the higher and lower genres. It can be recommended to all interested in this apparently flourishing branch of literary analysis. -- Philip Bosman * Scholia Reviews *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink 1. Generating Genres: The Idea of the Tragic Glenn W.Most 2. Epigram and Reader: Generic Force as (Re-)Activation of Ritual Joseph W.Day 3. Enacted and Represented Dedications: Genre and Greek Hymn Mary Depew 4. Formulas, Voice, and Death in Ehoie-Poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos, and the Odysseian Nekuia Ian Rutherford 5. Herodotus' Genre(s) Deborah Boedeker 6. From Aristophanes to Menander: Genre Transformation in Greek Comedy Eric Csapo 7. Theocritus and the Demythologizing of Poetry Mario Fantuzzi 8. Lycophron's Alexandra: "Hindsight as Foresight Makes No Sense" Stephanie West 9. Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition Alessandro Bar Hiesi 10. The Dialectics of Genre: Some Aspects of Secondary Literature and Genre in Antiquity Ineke Sluiter 11. The Didactic Plot Don Fowler 12. Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius Stephen Hinds Notes Bibliography Contributors Index In Memoriam Don Fowler
