Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
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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.…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
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.