Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts spanning from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms, thereby provoking reflection on writing the history of ancient literature today.
Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts spanning from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms, thereby provoking reflection on writing the history of ancient literature today.
List of contributors Introduction Giacomo Fedeli and Henry Spelman Part I. Between Literature and Scholarship: 1. Writing the beginnings of Greek literary history Henry Spelman 2. Contrasting pairs and twin graves: companion epigrams and the history of tekhnai Évelyne Prioux 3. Ancient histories of satire(s): Horace as an appropriator, innovator and source Giacomo Fedeli 4. Cicero as a literary historian Elisa Romano 5. Varro and the spirits of Rome's literary past Joseph McAlhany Part II. Lives and Afterlives: 6. From comedy to literary history Mary Lefkowitz 7. Constructing Virgil and his biography Fabio Stok 8. 'Another X': duplicating poets in ancient Greek literary history Andrea Rotstein 9. Philostratus in verse: poetry and literary history in the Second Sophistic Emma Greensmith Part III. Narratives of Change 10. Aristotelian teleology in literary criticism: Demetrius, Dionysius and Longinus on the early history of literature Casper de Jonge 11. Progress and decline in Roman perspectives on literary history Mario Citroni 12. The pleasure of the text? Literacy, orality and programmatics in Lucretius Monica R. Gale 13. Plutarch and the history of Greek poetry Richard Hunter Epilogue 14. The losers' legacy: placing literary fragments in literary history Sandra M. Goldberg Afterword: an impossible ending? Simon Goldhill Bibliography Index of subjects Index locorum.
List of contributors Introduction Giacomo Fedeli and Henry Spelman Part I. Between Literature and Scholarship: 1. Writing the beginnings of Greek literary history Henry Spelman 2. Contrasting pairs and twin graves: companion epigrams and the history of tekhnai Évelyne Prioux 3. Ancient histories of satire(s): Horace as an appropriator, innovator and source Giacomo Fedeli 4. Cicero as a literary historian Elisa Romano 5. Varro and the spirits of Rome's literary past Joseph McAlhany Part II. Lives and Afterlives: 6. From comedy to literary history Mary Lefkowitz 7. Constructing Virgil and his biography Fabio Stok 8. 'Another X': duplicating poets in ancient Greek literary history Andrea Rotstein 9. Philostratus in verse: poetry and literary history in the Second Sophistic Emma Greensmith Part III. Narratives of Change 10. Aristotelian teleology in literary criticism: Demetrius, Dionysius and Longinus on the early history of literature Casper de Jonge 11. Progress and decline in Roman perspectives on literary history Mario Citroni 12. The pleasure of the text? Literacy, orality and programmatics in Lucretius Monica R. Gale 13. Plutarch and the history of Greek poetry Richard Hunter Epilogue 14. The losers' legacy: placing literary fragments in literary history Sandra M. Goldberg Afterword: an impossible ending? Simon Goldhill Bibliography Index of subjects Index locorum.
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