The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Ancient Predecessors of Narratology
5. The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato 15
6. The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism 43
7. Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia 63
8. II. Narratology – New Concepts
9. Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature 87
10. Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance 117
11. Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer 137
12. Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart? 153
13. III. Narratology and the Interpretation of Epic and Lyric Poetry
14. Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra άλοχος μυηστή έμήσατο 177
15. Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey 213
16. Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar’s First Pythian Ode 241
17. Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica 275
18. ‘Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion 293
19. Aeneid 5.362 – 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets 321
20. IV. Narratology and the Interpretation of Tragedy
21. Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama 337
22. Layered Stories in Aeschylus’ Persians 357
23. Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon 377
24. Knowing a Story’s End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes 399
25. Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy 421
26. V. Narratology and the Interpretation of Historiography
27. Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon’s Anabasis 451
28. The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius’ Histories 481
29. Seeing through Caesar’s Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation 507
30. History beyond Literature: Interpreting the ‘Internally Focalized’ Narrative in Livy’s Ab urbe condita 527
31. Fame’s Narratives. Epic and Historiography 555
32. Backmatter 573