Defining Greek Narrative

Abstract

1. Introduction, Ruth Scodel Part I: Defining the Greek Tradition 2. Beyond Auerbach: Homeric Narrative and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Johannes Haubold 3. Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East, Adrian Kelly 4. Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homerm, Ruth Scodel 5. Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey, Erwin Cook Part II: The Development of the Greek Tradition 6. Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition, Douglas Cairns 7. 'Where do I begin?': An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife, Richard Hunter 8. Some Ancient Views on Narrative, its Structure and Working, Rene Nunlist 9. Who, Sappho?, Alex Purves 10. The Creative Impact of the Occasion: Pindar's Songs for the Emmenids and Horace's Odes 1.2 and 4.2, Lucia Athanassaki 11. Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage, P.E. Easterling 12. Stock Situations, Topoi and the Greekness of Greek Historiography, Lisa Hau 13. Heliodorus the Hellene, J. R. Morgan Part III: Beyond Greece 14. Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History, Dennis Pausch 15. Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives, A. D. Morrison 16. The Anonymous Traveller in European Literature: A Greek Meme?, Irene J. F. de Jong Bibliography Index Locorum Index.