Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature 1
5. The Sound of Silence: Performing Silence in Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry 9
6. Silence and Concealment in Pindar 27
7. Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus 51
8. The Silences of Chariclea in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: From Cunning to Shame 73
9. Silences in Aristophanes’ Dramas 85
10. The Rhetoric and Theatrics of the Unspeakable in Tragedy 113
11. The Power of Logos and the Power of Silence 157
12. The Unspeakable and the Unspoken 175
13. Silence and Motivation in Sophocles’ Ajax 195
14. Silence and Song in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Ion 217
15. Women’s Silence and Its Transcendence in Greek Tragedy 239
16. The Novelty of Tragic Silence 255
17. Bibliography 267
18. List of Contributors 283
19. Index of Terms 287
20. Index of Sources 291