Introductory Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introductory Notes 1
5. Defining the Indefinable: Greek Submerged Literature and Some Problems of Terminology 7
6. Submerged Literature in an Oral Culture 19
7. The Canon and Its Boundaries 33
8. Beyond the Canon: Hellenistic Scholars and Their Texts 46
9. The Trojan War Myth: Rhapsodic Canon and Lyric Alternatives 61
10. Local Epics and Epic Cycles: the Anomalous Case of a Submerged Genre 76
11. Two Cases of Submerged Monodic Lyric: Sympotic Poetry and Lullabies 90
12. Dramatic Actions from Archaic Iconographic Sources: the Domain of the Satyrikon 107
13. Comedy outside the Canon: from Ritual Slapstick to Hellenistic Mime 128
14. Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy 151
15. By Way of Conclusion 178
16. Reference List 188
17. Index Nominum 209
18. Index Rerum Notabilium 217
19. Index Locorum 222
20. Contributors 227