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Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and ‘speech in speech’ are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak.

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Author:   Mathieu de Bakker ,  Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   448
Weight:   1.388kg
ISBN:  

9789004498808

ISBN 10:   900449880
Pages:   750
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Narratological Theory on Speech  Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong Part 1 Epic and Elegiac Poetry 1 Homer  Irene de Jong 2 Hesiod  Hugo Koning 3 The Homeric Hymns  Irene de Jong 4 Apollonius of Rhodes  Jacqueline Klooster 5 Callimachus  Annette Harder 6 Theocritus  Jacqueline Klooster 7 Quintus of Smyrna  Silvio Bär 8 Nonnus  Berenice Verhelst Part 2 Historiography 9 Herodotus  Mathieu de Bakker 10 Thucydides  Tim Rood 11 Xenophon  Luuk Huitink and Tim Rood 12 Polybius  Luuk Pitcher 13 Appian  Luuk Pitcher 14 Cassius Dio  Luuk Pitcher 15 Herodian  Luuk Pitcher 16 Josephus  Jan Willem van Henten and Luuk Huitink Part 3 Choral Lyric 17 Pindar and Bacchylides  Bruno Currie Part 4 Drama 18 Aeschylus  Evert van Emde Boas 19 Sophocles  Evert van Emde Boas 20 Euripides  Evert van Emde Boas Part 5 Oratory 21 Early Orators  Luuk Huitink 22 Later Orators  Mathieu de Bakker Part 6 Philosophy 23 Plato  Kathryn Morgan Part 7 Biography 24 Plutarch  Judith Mossman 25 Philostratus  Kristoffel Demoen Part 8 Christian Narrative 26 Gospels  Michal Beth Dinkler Part 9 The Novel 27 Chariton  Koen de Temmerman 28 Xenophon of Ephesus  Aldo Tagliabue 29 Achilles Tatius  Koen de Temmerman 30 Longus  John Morgan 31 Heliodorus  John Morgan Epilogue: Speech in Ancient Greek Narrative  Mathieu de Bakker and Irene de Jong Glossary Index

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Irene J.F. de Jong is Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on Homer, Euripides, Herodotus and other Greek narrative texts. Recent publications include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (CUP 2001), Homer Iliad Book XXII (CUP 2012), and Narratology and Classics. A Practical Guide (OUP 2014). Mathieu P. de Bakker is University Lecturer of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. He has published articles on Greek historiography, oratory and epigraphy, and is co-author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek. Contributors are Mathieu P. de Bakker, Silvio Bär, Bruno Currie, Kristoffel Demoen, Michal Beth Dinkler, Evert van Emde Boas, Annette Harder, Jan Willem van Henten, Irene J.F. de Jong, Luuk Huitink, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, John Morgan, Judith Mossman, Luke V. Pitcher, Tim Rood, Aldo Tagliabue, Koen de Temmerman, Berenice Verhelst.

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