The layers of the text : collected papers on classical literature 2008-2021 / edited by Antonios Rengakos and Evangelos Karakasis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rengakos, Antonios, editor.

Karakasis, Evangelos, editor.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 1868-4785 ; 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature.

Greek literature--Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 923 p.)

Online

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of the Original Publication Venues

List of Papers not Included in the Present Collection

Part I: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature

1 Alcibiades the Laughter-maker

2 The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry

3 ‘Where do I begin?’: An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife

Part II: Ancient Drama

4 The Garland of Hippolytus

5 Apollo and the Ion of Euripides: Nothing to do with Nietzsche?

6 Comedy and Reperformance

Part III: Hellenistic Poetry

7 Language and Interpretation in Greek Epigram

8 The Gods of Callimachus

9 Festivals, Cults and the Construction of Consensus in Hellenistic Poetry

10 Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry

11 Sweet Stesichorus: Theocritus 18 and the Helen Revisited

12 A Philosophical Death?

13 Hellenistic Poetry and the Archaeology of Leisure

14 Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary?

15 Reading and Citing the Epigrams of Callimachus

16 Enkelados: Callimachus fr. 1.36

17 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry

18 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer

Part IV: Latin Literature

19 Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho

20 One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy

21 Horace’s other Ars Poetica: Epistles 1.2 and Ancient Homeric Criticism

22 Some Dramatic Terminology

23 Regius urget: Hellenising Thoughts on Latin Intratextuality

24 The Geographies of Plautus’ Menaechmi

Part V: The Ancient Novel

25 Fictional Anxieties

26 Rythmical Language and Poetic Citation in Greek Narrative Texts

Part VI: Ancient Criticism and Scholarship

27 The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism

28 Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship

29 Attic Comedy in the Rhetorical and Moralising Traditions

30 ‘Clever about Verses’?: Plato and the ‘Scopas Ode’ (PMG 542 = 260 Poltera)

31 Serpents in the Soul: The ‘Libyan Myth’ of Dio Chrysostom

32 ‘Palaephatus’, Strabo and the Boundaries of Myth

33 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer

34 The Hippias Minor and the Traditions of Homeric Criticism

35 Autobiography as Literary History: Dio Chrysostom, On exile

36 Eustathian Moments: Reading Eustathius’ Commentaries

37 Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Idea of the Critic

38 Dio Chrysostom and the Citation of Tragedy

39 Some Problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’

Part VII: Miscellaneous

40 The Letter of Aristeas

41 Pulling Apollo Apart

42 The Poetics of Greek Inscriptions

43 John Malalas and the Story of the Cyclops

44 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus

General Index

Index of Passages Discussed

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-074757-X