The Layers of the Text : : Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021 / / Richard Hunter; ed. by Antonios Rengakos, Evangelos Karakasis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Hunter, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Karakasis, Evangelos,; Rengakos, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 127
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 923 p.)

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).

Table of 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