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Cambridge University Press Xenophon
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon''s Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read Greek better. It also incorporates recent advances in Xenophontic scholarship and Greek linguistics, showcasing in particular Xenophon''s linguistic innovations and varied style. Advanced students and professional scholars will also profit from the sustained attention which this commentary devotes to Xenophon''s varied narrative strategies and to the reception of episodes from Anabasis III in antiquity. The introduction and commentary show that Xenophon is just as important (if not more so) to the development of Greek historiography, and of Greek prose in general, as Herodotus and Thucydides.Trade Review'The commentary of course covers much more than the language. Introductions are provided for individual sections and explain details of the march at each stage. Information is not gratuitously presented, so we are not treated to a full-scale discussion of Assyrians despite the army passing through their former territory. In short, the commentary and introduction are very helpful and informative, lucidly expressed and clearly presented. One of [the authors'] aims is to 'help students to read Greek better' and in this they surely succeed.' Alan Beale, Classics for All'This is a fine contribution to the 'Green and Yellow' series, and a valuable addition to the Anabasis' growing bibliography. It wholly succeeds in its ambition to demonstrate the important contribution that Xenophon made to Greek historiography and will be no doubt prove essential reading for students and scholars alike.' Jan Haywood, The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of maps and figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Cyrus and the Persian empire; 2. The Ten Thousand; 3. Xenophon's life; 4. The Anabasis; 5. Xenophon's diction; 6. Style: speech and narrative; 7. The textual tradition; Commentary; Appendix: chronology and topography.
£25.99
Brill Speech in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume five
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
£167.20
