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

Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (2004)
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Mnemosyne - Volume 257
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ISBN: 9004139273......Page 5
--> TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
GENERAL INTRODUCTION......Page 12
GLOSSARY......Page 16
part one - EPIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY......Page 30
The narrator......Page 20
Narratees......Page 23
Narrative......Page 25
Embedded narrative......Page 29
The primary narrator......Page 32
Secondary narrators and embedded narratives......Page 37
Primary and secondary narratees......Page 41
Theogony......Page 44
Works and Days......Page 50
chapter three - THE HOMERIC HYMNS......Page 54
Hymn to Apollo......Page 59
Narrative goals, main narrative, and digressions......Page 62
The narrator......Page 65
The narratees......Page 72
Secondary narrators and narratorial alter egos......Page 76
Conclusion......Page 80
Narrators......Page 82
Narratees......Page 91
Narratives......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 99
chapter six - THEOCRITUS AND MOSCHUS......Page 102
External narrators......Page 103
Internal narrators......Page 109
Embedded narratives......Page 112
Conclusion......Page 113
The Europa of Moschus......Page 114
part two - HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 118
Resemblances to the Homeric narrator......Page 120
An overt narrator......Page 121
A partially omniscient narrator......Page 125
Secondary and reported narrators......Page 126
Narratees......Page 129
The main narrative and the digressions......Page 130
Narratorial alter egos and the function of the Histories......Page 132
Narrator......Page 134
Narratees......Page 140
Secondary narrators......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 147
An anonymous narrator......Page 148
An overt narrator and his narratees......Page 151
Example I: Teleutias the Spartan......Page 157
Example II: Iphicrates the Athenian......Page 159
Implicit forms of evaluation......Page 160
Secondary and reported narrators......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 165
chapter ten - POLYBIUS......Page 166
The primary narrator......Page 168
Narratees......Page 176
Secondary narrators......Page 179
Conclusion......Page 183
‘You must know who I am’......Page 184
Superior sources......Page 186
Explicit narratorial interventions......Page 187
Narratees......Page 192
Conclusion......Page 193
From Alexandria to Rome......Page 194
Explicit narratorial interventions......Page 197
Narratees......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 204
A historian by vocation......Page 206
Explicit narratorial interventions......Page 209
Narratees......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 217
An elusive persona......Page 220
Explicit narratorial interventions......Page 222
An omnipresent and omniscient narrator......Page 225
Narratees......Page 226
Secondary narrators......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 229
part three - CHORAL LYRIC......Page 230
chapter fifteen - PINDAR AND BACCHYLIDES......Page 232
Demarcating the narrative......Page 233
The primary narrator and narratee......Page 235
The status of the primary narrative......Page 239
Motivation of the primary narrative......Page 242
Secondary narrators and secondary narratees......Page 245
part four - DRAMA......Page 252
chapter sixteen - AESCHYLUS......Page 254
Chorus......Page 255
Characters......Page 262
Messengers......Page 269
Conclusion......Page 273
Introduction. The forms of Sophoclean narrative......Page 274
The marking and function of narrative......Page 276
Internal and external narrators......Page 277
Messengers......Page 280
Overt narrators......Page 281
Narratees......Page 282
A Sophoclean speciality: false narrative......Page 285
Conclusion......Page 286
chapter eighteen - EURIPIDES......Page 288
Prologues......Page 289
Messenger speeches and related narrative rheseis......Page 292
Choral narration......Page 293
Agonistic narration......Page 295
Narration apo mekhanes and other exodos narratives......Page 297
Conclusion......Page 298
Narrative......Page 300
Narrators......Page 307
Narratees......Page 311
chapter twenty - MENANDER......Page 316
Monologic narratives......Page 317
Dialogic narratives......Page 320
chapter twenty-one - LYCOPHRON......Page 326
Apollo, Cassandra, and the narratology of inspiration......Page 327
Cassandra: the mantic narrator......Page 329
Priam’s slave: narrative as drama......Page 331
Lycophron, Ptolemy, and the ‘Lycophron question’......Page 332
part five - ORATORY......Page 334
Introduction. Narratology and oratory......Page 336
Antiphon......Page 337
chapter twenty-three - ANDOCIDES......Page 344
chapter twenty-four - LYSIAS......Page 352
chapter twenty-five - ISOCRATES......Page 356
chapter twenty-six - DEMOSTHENES......Page 362
chapter twenty-seven - AESCHINES......Page 368
Conclusion......Page 371
part six - PHILOSOPHY......Page 374
Introduction......Page 376
The narrator and the forms of Platonic dialogue......Page 378
The Socratic narrator......Page 380
Disciple narrators......Page 383
Secondary narrators and narratives......Page 387
chapter twenty-nine - XENOPHON......Page 396
Memorabilia......Page 399
Oeconomicus......Page 401
Apologia......Page 404
Symposium......Page 406
part seven - BIOGRAPHY......Page 408
chapter thirty - XENOPHON......Page 410
An external primary narrator......Page 411
The primary narrator and his sources......Page 413
An overt narrator......Page 415
Secondary narrators and narratees......Page 418
Conclusion......Page 420
chapter thirty-one - PLUTARCH......Page 422
In honour of Apollonius of Tyana......Page 442
The narrator and his sources......Page 443
Narratees......Page 449
Embedded narration......Page 450
Issues of credibility......Page 452
The Lives of the sophists......Page 454
chapter thirty-three - AELIUS ARISTIDES......Page 460
part eight - BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC......Page 468
chapter thirty-four - DIO CHRYSOSTOM......Page 470
chapter thirty-five - LUCIAN......Page 484
part nine - THE NOVEL......Page 496
chapter thirty-six - CHARITON......Page 498
Embedded narratives......Page 505
chapter thirty-seven - XENOPHON OF EPHESUS......Page 508
chapter thirty-eight - ACHILLES TATIUS......Page 512
Embedded narratives......Page 521
chapter thirty-nine - LONGUS......Page 526
Introduction......Page 542
The primary narrator......Page 545
Secondary narrators......Page 552
Conclusion......Page 561
Narratology and genre......Page 564
Narrators......Page 565
Narratees......Page 568
The functions of storytelling......Page 570
A history of ancient Greek narrative......Page 571
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 574
THEMATIC INDEX......Page 598