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Title Greek literature. Volume 5, Greek literature in the classical period : the prose of historiography and oratory / edited with introduction by Gregory Nagy
Published New York ; Oxfordshire, England : Routledge, 2001
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Description 1 online resource (412 pages)
Series Greek Literature ; Volume 5
Greek literature series ; Volume 5.
Contents Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Section A. Historiography; 1. Narrative Surface and Authorial Voice in Herodotus' Histories; 2. The Historians of the Classical World and Their Audiences; 3. Who Read Herodotus' Histories?; 4. Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences and the Story of Rhapsinitus and the Thief in the Histories; 5. Herodotus and the Language of Metals; 6. Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos' Histories; 7. Herodotus the Tourist; 8. Thucydides' Use of Herodotus; 9. Thucydides in the Act of Writing
10. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyrean Affair in Thucydides I11. Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily; 12. Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice; 13. A Post-Modernist Thucydides; 14. Silent Women of Thucydides: 2.45.2 Re-Viewed; 15. Pseudo-Xenophon; Section B. Oratory; 16. Rhetorical Performative Discourse: A New Theory of Epideictic; 17. On Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously; 18. Dikastic Thorubos; 19. The Athenian ""Politicians, "" 403-322 B.C.; 20. Poetry and the Demos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession
21. Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory22. The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches; 23. The Epiphany of Demosthenes; Copyright Acknowledgments
Summary Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: reference@routledge-ny.com.]]>
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Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Nagy, Gregory, editor, author of introduction, etc
ISBN 9781136540448
113654044X
9780203055908
020305590X