Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Space in ancient Greek literature : studies in ancient Greek narrative / edited by Irene J.F. de Jong
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 610 pages)
Series Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 339. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 339.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Contents Preface; Glossary; Introduction. Narratological Theory On Space (I.J.F. de Jong); PART ONE. EPIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY; 1. Homer (I.J.F. de Jong); 2. The Homeric Hymns (I.J.F. de Jong); 3. Apollonius Of Rhodes (J.J.H. Klooster); 4. Callimachus (M.A. Harder); 5. Theocritus (J.J.H. Klooster); PART TWO. HISTORIOGRAPHY; 6. Herodotus (T. Rood); 7. Thucydides (T. Rood); 8. Xenophon (T. Rood); 9. Polybius (T. Rood); 10. Josephus (L. Huitink and J.W. van Henten); 11. Appian (L.V. Pitcher); 12. Pausanias (J. Akujarvi); 13. Cassius DIO (L.V. Pitcher); 14. Herodian (L.V. Pitcher)
PART THREE. CHORAL LYRIC15. Pindar and Bacchylides (B.G.F.penalty @M Currie); PART FOUR. DRAMA; 16. Aeschylus (R. Rehm); 17. Sophocles (R. Rehm); 18. Euripides (M. Lloyd); 19. Aristophanes (A.M. Bowie); PART FIVE. ORATORY; 20. Lysias (M.P. de Bakker); 21. Demosthenes (M.P. de Bakker); PART SIX. PHILOSOPHY; 22. Plato (K.A. Morgan); PART SEVEN. BIOGRAPHY; 23. Plutarch (M. Beck); 24. Philostratus (T.J.G. Whitmarsh); PART EIGHT. THE NOVEL; 25. Chariton (K. de Temmerman); 26. Xenophon of Ephesus (K. de Temmerman); 27. Achilles Tatius (K. de Temmerman); 28. Longus (J.R. Morgan)
29. Heliodorus (J.R. Morgan)Bibliography; Index
Summary The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-605) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
Space and time in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Greek literature
Space and time in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Jong, Irene J. F. de, editor.
ISBN 9789004224384
9004224386