Narratology and Interpretation (eBook)

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Jonas Grethlein , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Antonios Rengakos, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato 23
The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism 51
Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia 71
Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature 95
Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance 125
Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer 145
Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart? 161
Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ...... µ..st. .µ.sat. 185
Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey 221
Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar’s First Pythian Ode 249
Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica 283
‘Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion 301
Aeneid 5.362 – 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets 329
Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama 345
Layered Stories in Aeschylus’ Persians 365
Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon 385
Knowing a Story’s End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes 407
Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy 429
Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon’s Anabasis 459
The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius’ 489
Seeing through Caesar’s Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation 515
History beyond Literature: Interpreting the ‘Internally Focalized’ Narrative in Livy’s Ab urbe condita 535
Fame’s Narratives. Epic and Historiography 563
Backmatter 581