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This edited volume offers the first comprehensive study of prolepsis in narratives written in ancient Greek, ranging from Homer to the late antique author Colluthus, with the inclusion of Second Temple Jewish Literature. Structuralist narratology defines prolepsis as the narration in advance of an event that takes place later in the story. The papers collected in this volume start from this approach, but move beyond it by exploring a wide range of new definitions, forms and readerly effects of prolepsis. Several contributions draw on postclassical narratological approaches and focus on cognitive aspects of reading, narrative virtuality, and readerly (un)certainty that stems from prolepses.

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Saskia Schomber is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing her PhD dissertation (defended in 2024) on the narrative aesthetics of late Greek epic for publication. Her research interests further include postclassical narratology and critical approaches to Classics. Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophon’s Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis). Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue

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