Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative

608 Pages·2004·3.244 MB·English

by  Irene J.F. de Jong, Angus M. Bowie, René Nünlist

NARRATORS, NARRATEES, AND NARRATIVES
IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL
I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM QUINQUAGESIMUM SEPTIMUM
IRENE DE JONG, RENÉ NÜNLIST, and ANGUS BOWIE
NARRATORS, NARRATEES, AND NARRATIVES
IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE
NARRATORS, NARRATEES, AND
NARRATIVES IN ANCIENT
GREEK LITERATURE
STUDIES IN ANCIENT GREEK NARRATIVE,
VOLUME ONE
EDITED BY
IRENE DE JONG, RENÉ NÜNLIST and ANGUS BOWIE
BRILL
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2004
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Preface ................................................................ ix
General introduction ................................................ xi
Glossary .............................................................. xv
Introduction.Narratologicaltheory onnarrators, narratees, and
narratives(I.J.F. deJong) .......................................... 1
part one. epic and elegiac poetry
ChapterOne. Homer(I.J.F. deJong) ............................... 13
ChapterTwo.Hesiod (R.Nünlist) .................................. 25
ChapterThree. TheHomeric Hymns (R.Nünlist) ................ 35
ChapterFour.ApolloniusofRhodes(M.P.Cuypers) ............... 43
ChapterFive. Callimachus(M.A.Harder) ......................... 63
ChapterSix.TheocritusandMoschus(R.Hunter) ................ 83
part two. historiography
ChapterSeven. Herodotus(I.J.F. deJong) .......................... 101
ChapterEight.Thucydides(T. Rood) .............................. 115
ChapterNine. Xenophon (V.Gray) ................................. 129
ChapterTen.Polybius(T.Rood) .................................... 147
ChapterEleven. Arrian(T. Hidber) ................................. 165
ChapterTwelve. Appian(T. Hidber) ................................ 175
ChapterThirteen. CassiusDio (T. Hidber) ......................... 187
ChapterFourteen.Herodian(T.Hidber) ........................... 201
part three. choral lyric
ChapterFifteen.Pindarand Bacchylides(I.L. Pfeijffer) ........... 213
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part four. drama
ChapterSixteen.Aeschylus (J. Barrett) ............................. 235
ChapterSeventeen. Sophocles(I.J.F. deJong) ...................... 255
ChapterEighteen. Euripides(N.J. Lowe) ........................... 269
ChapterNineteen. Aristophanes(A. Bowie) ........................ 281
ChapterTwenty.Menander(R.Nünlist) ........................... 297
ChapterTwenty-One. Lycophron(N.J. Lowe) ..................... 307
part five. oratory
ChapterTwenty-Two.Antiphon(M.Edwards) .................... 317
ChapterTwenty-Three. Andocides(M.Edwards) ................. 325
ChapterTwenty-Four.Lysias(M.Edwards) ........................ 333
ChapterTwenty-Five.Isocrates (M.Edwards) ..................... 337
ChapterTwenty-Six.Demosthenes (M.Edwards) ................. 343
ChapterTwenty-Seven. Aeschines (M.Edwards) .................. 349
part six. philosophy
ChapterTwenty-Eight.Plato(K.A.Morgan) ....................... 357
ChapterTwenty-Nine. Xenophon(V. Gray) ....................... 377
part seven. biography
ChapterThirty.Xenophon (V.Gray) ............................... 391
ChapterThirty-One. Plutarch(C.B.R.Pelling) .................... 403
ChapterThirty-Two.Philostratus(T.J.G. Whitmarsh) ............. 423
ChapterThirty-Three.AeliusAristides(T.J.G. Whitmarsh) ....... 441
part eight. betweenphilosophy and rhetoric
ChapterThirty-Four.DioChrysostom(T.J.G. Whitmarsh) ........ 451
ChapterThirty-Five.Lucian(T.J.G. Whitmarsh) ................... 465
tableofcontents vii
part nine. the novel
ChapterThirty-Six.Chariton(J. Morgan) .......................... 479
ChapterThirty-Seven. XenophonofEphesus(J. Morgan) ........ 489
ChapterThirty-Eight.Achilles Tatius(J.Morgan) ................. 493
ChapterThirty-Nine. Longus(J.Morgan) .......................... 507
ChapterFourty.Heliodorus(J. Morgan) ............................ 523
Epilogue.Narrators, narratees, and narrativesinancient Greek
literature(I.J.F. deJongand R.Nünlist) .......................... 545
Bibliography .......................................................... 555
Thematic index ...................................................... 579

PREFACE
The germ of this book lies in a research project that I developed in
1988, after finishing my PhD. That project promised the narratological
investigationofnarrativeswhichareembeddedinnon-narrativegenres,
notably the Euripidean messenger-speech, the myth of the Pindaric
victory ode, and the narratio in forensic speeches. As it turned out,
the Euripidean messenger-speeches offered such a wealth of material
that I devoted an entire book to them. After that I returned to my
‘first love’ Homer. I revived my plan in 1995, when I applied to the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for a ‘Pioneer grant’,
i.e.,agrantforagroupofscholarsworkingonaninnovativesubject.By
that time, the project had been re-christened Narrationis Ratio. A History
of Ancient Greek Narrative, and, as this title suggests, expanded to include
bothnarrative andnon-narrativegenres. In 1998the opportunitycame
to fulfil my old dream, when I was awarded a professorship of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which included a
modest budget. In September 1999 I organized a two-day workshop
in Amsterdam, which brought together prospective contributors, and
during which the principles and practical organization of the project
were discussed. One of the conclusions was that it would be impossible
to complete the task we had set ourselves in a single volume, and
that a series of volumes would be needed. On that occasion I asked
Angus Bowie to co-edit the first volume. But it was soon clear to
me that editing a multi-author and conceptually and methodologically
experimental work such as this was a huge task, and I asked René
Nünlist to act as—a second—co-editor of the first volume and to
becomeco-editoroftheseries asawhole.
I wish to thank Heleen Keizer and Linda Woodward for their assis-
tance in copy editing the texts. But my greatest thanks go to Michiel
Klein Swormink of Brill Publishers for the trust he has shown in this
trulypioneering project.