Prolepsis in Ancient Greek Narrative

Saskia Schomber, Ph.D. (2019), is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing her PhD dissertation on the narrative aesthetics of Late Greek epic for publication. Her research interests further include postclassical narratology and critical approaches to Classics. Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophon’s Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis). Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert Hendrik van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue

Preface

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction: Narrating Ahead

 Saskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue



2 Additive Anachronies in Homer

 Alexander C. Loney



3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotus’ Histories

 Irene J.F. de Jong



4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophon’s Narrative of Mantinea (Hell. 7.5): The Fog of War

 Luuk Huitink



5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

 Evert van Emde Boas



6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2 Maccabees: That Was Now, This Is Then

 R.Gillian Glass



7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodian’s History of the Empire after Marcus: The Paradox of Anticipation

 Mario Baumann



8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and Closure

 Benedek Kruchió



9 The Inset Stories of Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual Prolepses

 Aldo Tagliabue



10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica

 Jonas Grethlein



11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen: Ghost Stories and Virtual Narratives

 Saskia Schomber



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