Speech in ancient Greek literature / / edited by Mathieu P. de Bakker, Irene J.F. de Jong.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 448
• TeilnehmendeR: Jong, Irene J. F. de,; Bakker, Mathieu de,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in ancient Greek narrative ; v. 5.; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 448.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (762 pages)

Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and 'speech in speech' are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak.

Table of Contents

Introduction : narratological theory on speech / Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong -- Part I. Epic and elegiac poetry. Homer / Irene de Jong -- Hesiod / Hugo Koning -- The Homeric Hymns / Irene de Jong -- Apollonius of Rhodes / Jacqueline Klooster -- Callimachus / Annette Harder -- Theocritus / Jacqueline Klooster -- Quintus of Smyrna / Silvio Bär -- Nonnus / Berenice Verhelst -- Part 2. Historiography. Herodotus / Mathieu de Bakker -- Thucydides / Tim Rood -- Xenophon / Luuk Huitink, Tim Rood -- Polybius / Luke Pitcher -- Appian / Luke Pitcher -- Cassius Dio / Luke Pitcher -- Herodian / Luke Pitcher -- Josephus / Jan Willem van Henten, Luuk Huitink -- Part 3. Choral lyric. Pindar and Bacchylides / Bruno Currie -- Part 4. Drama. Aeschylus / Evert van Emde Boas -- Sophocles / Evert van Emde Boas -- Euripides / Evert van Emde Boas -- Part 5. Oratory. Early orators / Luuk Huitink -- Later orators / Mathieu de Bakker -- Part 6. Philosophy. Plato / Kathryn Morgan -- Part 7. Biography. Plutarch / Judith Mossman -- Philostratus / Kristoffel Demoen -- Part 8. Christian narrative. The Gospels / Michal Beth Dinkler -- Part 9. The novel. Chariton / Koen de Temmerman -- Xenophon of Ephesus / Aldo Tagliabue -- Achilles Tatius / Koen de Temmerman -- Longus / John Morgan -- Heliodorus / John Morgan -- Epilogue : speech in ancient Greek narrative / Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong.