Time in ancient Greek literature / edited by Irene J.F. de Jong, Rene Nunlist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jong, Irene J. F. de., Editor.

Nünlist, René., Editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 291.

Studies in ancient Greek narrative ; v. 2.

Studies in ancient Greek narrative ; v. 2

Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica batava ; v. 291

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger historical perspective on the manner in which it changes over time and is put to different uses by different authors in different genres. The present volume deals with time: changes in the order of events (analepsis versus prolepsis), the speed of narration (events may be recounted scenically or in the form of a summary), and frequency (events may be recounted once, repeatedly, or not at all).

Contents:

Homer / I.J.F. de Jong

Hesiod / R. Nunlist

The homeric hymns / R. Nunlist

Apollonius of Rhodes / J.J.H. Klooster

Callimachus / M.A. Harder

Theocritus / J.J.H. Klooster

Herodotus / T. Rood

Thucydides / T. Rood

Xenophon / T. Rood

Polybius / T. Rood

Arrian / T. Hidber

Herodian / T. Hidber

Josephus / J.W. van Henten & L. Huitink

Pindar and Bacchylides / R. Nunlist

Aeschylus / J. Barrett

Sophocles / I.J.F. de Jong

Euripides / M.A. Lloyd

Aristophanes / A.M. Bowie

Antiphon / M.J. Edwards

Lysias / M.J. Edwards

Demosthenes / M.J.Edwards

Plato / K.A.Morgan

Xenophon / K.A. Morgan

Xenophon / M. Beck

Plutarch / M. Beck

Philostratus / T.J.G. Whitmarsh

Chariton / J.R. Morgan

Xenophon of Ephesus / J. Morgan

Longus / J.R. Morgan

Heliodorus / J.R. Morgan

Time in ancient Greek literature / I.J.F. de Jong & R. Nunlist.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-538) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-93731-2

9786611937317

90-474-2293-7

OCLC:

315571523

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004165069.i-542 DOI