Description
Book SynopsisSpeech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and ‘speech in speech’ are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Narratological Theory on Speech Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong Part 1 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 7 Quintus of Smyrna Silvio Bär 8 Nonnus Berenice Verhelst Part 2 Historiography 9 Herodotus Mathieu de Bakker 10 Thucydides Tim Rood 11 Xenophon Luuk Huitink and Tim Rood 12 Polybius Luuk Pitcher 13 Appian Luuk Pitcher 14 Cassius Dio Luuk Pitcher 15 Herodian Luuk Pitcher 16 Josephus Jan Willem van Henten and Luuk Huitink Part 3 Choral Lyric 17 Pindar and Bacchylides Bruno Currie Part 4 Drama 18 Aeschylus Evert van Emde Boas 19 Sophocles Evert van Emde Boas 20 Euripides Evert van Emde Boas Part 5 Oratory 21 Early Orators Luuk Huitink 22 Later Orators Mathieu de Bakker Part 6 Philosophy 23 Plato Kathryn Morgan Part 7 Biography 24 Plutarch Judith Mossman 25 Philostratus Kristoffel Demoen Part 8 Christian Narrative 26 Gospels Michal Beth Dinkler Part 9 The Novel 27 Chariton Koen de Temmerman 28 Xenophon of Ephesus Aldo Tagliabue 29 Achilles Tatius Koen de Temmerman 30 Longus John Morgan 31 Heliodorus John Morgan Epilogue: Speech in Ancient Greek Narrative Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong Glossary Index
