Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels (Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 3 Volume Hardback Set)

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection. Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 List of Illustration and Tables 10 List of Places of Original Publication 11 Preface 17 List of Editions and Abbreviations 18 Introduction 23 1. Who is Dicaeopolis? (1988) 48 2. Marginalia Obsceniora : Some Problems in Aristophanes’ Wasps (1990) 55 3. Wine in Old Comedy (1995) 64 4. Ionian Iambus and Attic Komoidia : Father and Daughter, or Just Cousins? (2002) 82 5. Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Audience of Attic Comedy (2007) 100 6. Aristophanes’ Clouds : An Agonistic Note (2015) 117 7. The Lesson of Book 2 (2018) 127 8. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll, Philetas and Longus (1985) 151 9. Frame and Framed in Theocritus Poems 6 and 7 (1996) 186 10. The Reception of Apollonius Rhodius in Imperial Greek Literature (2000) 196 11. Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius (2015) 206 12. Greek Sophists and Greek Poetry in the Second Sophistic (1989) 237 13. Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaea (1989) 292 14. Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age (1990) 305 15. Hadrian and Greek Poetry (2002) 342 16. Dionysius of Alexandria: A Greek Poet in the Roman Empire (2004) 368 17. Luxury Cruisers? Philip’s Epigrammatists between Greece and Rome (2012) 379 18. Doing Doric (2016) 416 19. The Novels and the Real World (1977) 436 20. The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World (1994) 440 21. Philostratus: Writer of Fiction (1994) 466 22. Names and a Gem: Aspects of Allusion in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus (1995) 483 23. The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels (1996) 495 24. Phoenician Games in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica (1998) 515 25. The Chronology of the Earlier Greek Novels since B. E. Perry: Revisions and Precisions (2002) 533 26. The Function of Mythology in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2003) 550 27. Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe (2005) 568 28. The Construction of the Classical Past in the Ancient Greek Novels (2006) 588 29. Viewing and Listening on the Novelist’s Page (2006) 606 30. Direct Speech in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2006) 628 31. Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy (2007) 650 32. Links between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius (2007) 664 33. Literary Milieux (2008) 677 34. The Uses of Bookishness (2009) 697 35. Country Virtues, City Vices in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe ? (2009) 708 36. Socrates’ Cock and Daphnis’ Goats: The Rarity of Vows in the Religious Practice of the Greek Novels (2012) 718 37. Caging Grasshoppers: Longus’ Materials for Weaving ‘Reality’ (2013) 765 38. ‘Milesian Tales’ (2013) 782 39. A Land without Priests? Religious Authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (2015) 799 40. Poetic Elements in the Greek Novelists’ Prose (2017) 813 41. Captured Moments: Illustrating Longus’ Prose (2018) 847 42. Λέξεις Λόγγου (2019) 873 43. Animals, Slaves and Masters in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2019) 887 44. The Demotion of the Literary Cowherd (2019) 906 45. Callimachus and Longus (2019) 913 46. Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus (2020) 927 Bibliography 950 Index locorum 1004 Index of Greek Terms 1044 General Index 1049 "In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g., that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book "-- Provided by publisher