Books in the Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes series

The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts.

This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC. individuals' and communities' roles in funding performances and securing the circulation of texts; and how such performances contributed to transmission of the poems' texts.

Plautine Trends brings together experts on Roman comedy in a collective volume, focusing on key issues of modern Plautine research: Plautus's Greek models vs. interactive innovation, comic staging, metatheatrical aspects, as well as questions of language, structure, socio-historical and philosophical context, intertextuality and reception.

This volume brings together fifteen papers which address key issues in the field of Hellenistic studies. By reassessing conventional views and methods the volume aims at providing new insights into Hellenistic literature.

This book examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra.

Presents a study of "Apuleius' Metamorphoses" to juxtapose the different attitudes towards magic adopted by Lucius and other characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot, as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the work.

This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and cultural dynamics of geography.

This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period. Together they offer new perspectives to the still increasing readership of Flavian epic poetry.

This volume pursues a key topic in the current study of Latin literature - the way in which literary texts of all periods in Latin, while usually written in an identifiable genre, characteristically allude to and interact with other genres.

This book consists of a selection of papers which throw new light on old problems in one of Plato's most difficult dialogues. The first set of papers deals with definitions of sophistry from different perspectives (T. The final section with papers by F.

After developing a new definition of the ancient conception of the cento in general, Geta's cento technique and his use of the Vergilian text as well as his relation to theGreek and Roman models for his Medea are examined.

This volume addresses questionsconcerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the Epic Cycle; the epic of Alpamysh; the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Crisis on Stage

Includes contributions by scholars divided into four sections: the ancient scholars at work, the ancient grammarians on Greek language and linguistic correctness, ancient grammar in historical context and ancient grammar in interdisciplinary context.

Addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. This book also explores how choruses presented themselves.

Deals with various aspects of ancient Greek scholarship and grammar. This book contains articles which discuss questions such as the form of the Alexandrian ekdosis on the basis of the relationship between the library artefact on one hand and the text as an object of editing on the other.

The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, this title draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts.