Narratology and Interpretation

The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

Jonas Grethlein, Antonios Rengakos, Jonas Grethlein, Antonios Rengakos

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9783110482362
  9783110214529
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110214536
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: Literature

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Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato
• The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism
• Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia
• Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature
• Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance
• Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer
• Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart?
• Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra άλοχος μυηστή έμήσατο
• Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey
• Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar’s First Pythian Ode
• Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica
• ‘Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion
• Aeneid 5.362 – 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets
• Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama
• Layered Stories in Aeschylus’ Persians
• Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
• Knowing a Story’s End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes
• Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy
• Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon’s Anabasis
• The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius’
• Seeing through Caesar’s Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation
• History beyond Literature: Interpreting the ‘Internally Focalized’ Narrative in Livy’s Ab urbe condita
• Fame’s Narratives. Epic and Historiography
• Backmatter