1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Diachronic Aspects of Greek Literature
6. 2. Diomedes’ Foot Wound and Homeric Reception of Myth 17
7. 3. Diachronic Shifts between the Epic Past and Future at the Phaeacians 43
8. 4. A Diachronic Metapoetics of Reception 79
9. 5. The Professional Mourner and Singer of Spells 181
10. 6. Aristophanic Satire and the Pretense of Synchrony 213
11. 7. Diachrony and the Case of Aesop 233
12. 8. Splitting the Inheritance of Spite 291
13. Part II. Diachronic Aspects of Greek Culture
14. 9. Cultural Change and the Greek Perception of It 327
15. 10. Diachrony in Greek Agriculture 347
16. 11. Diachronic Parameters of Athenian Pederasty 363
17. Contributors 390
18. Index Fontium 391