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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature. The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the Second Sophistic, from the emotional intensity of Homer to Plutarch and the playfulness of Lucian, tracing patterns, developments, contrasts, and intertextual allusiveness across diverse texts and authors. These include dramatists (Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and Aristophanes), philosophers (Plato), lyricists (Alcman and Sappho), ancient literary critics (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), orators (whose lawcourt speeches were delivered literally 'against the clock' in the form of the clepsydra), Hellenistic poets (Apollonius and Lycophron), historiographers (Herodotus) and the fabulist Aesop. The structure is informed by Greek philosophical categories, exploring discrete metaphysical, psychological, aetiological, and ethical ideas about temporality; the collective project of the volume is to investigate how authors manipulated not only tenses but imagery, moods, and metres, as well as generic conventions, in shaping and articulating notions about orality, literariness, subjectivity, immediacy, presence, futurity, causation, gender, sexuality, ethnography, cosmology, and remotest prehistory. The result is a pioneering, unique, and multifaceted volume that throws light not only on the rich linguistic resources of the ancient Greek language in evoking time, but on surprising interconnections between genres often studied in isolation.
Contents
1: Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha: Introduction: Time, Tense, and Genre through the Ages
Section A. Divine and Human Time
2: Esther Eidinow: Divine and Human Narratives: Time and Being
3: Tobias Myers: Evoking the Eternal: Perspective and Paradox in Iliadic Warfare
4: Peter Moench: Bending Time: Divine Transcendence and Mortal Limits in Pindar's Nemean 6
5: Isobel Higgins: Sensing the Future in Lycophron's Alexandra
6: Edith Hall: One Precise Day c.547 bce: Playing with Time in Lucian's Charon
Section B. Temporalities of Knowledge
7: Carlo Delle Donne: Time and Genre: Cosmology and Verbal Tenses in Ancient Greek Literature
8: Edith Hall: Nine Thousand Years Ago: The Erasure of the Navy from Plato's Atlantis Fictions
9: Dimitar Dragnev: Aesop and the Future
10: Alessandro Vatri: The Living Past: Tense and Genre in the Critical Essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
11: Tobias Joho: Tense Usage and Temporal Form in Herodotean Conversation Scenes
12: Keating P. J. McKeon: Perseid Wars and Notional Nostos in Herodotus' Histories
13: Alessandro Vatri: Croak around the Clock: The Times and Tenses of Classical Attic Oratory
14: Brian McPhee: Ethnography in the Past Tense: The Amazons in Apollonius' Argonautica
15: Kenneth W. Yu: Aetiology and Temporal Regimes in Greek Hymnic and Ethnographic Literature
Section C. Present and Presence
16: Sheila Murnaghan: The Singularity of the Tragic Day
17: Edith Hall: Tragic Temporalities in Euripides' Trojan Women
18: Marcus Bell: Cruel Futurity in Euripides' Bacchae: Dance, Impasse, Ecstasy
19: Devan Turner: Silenus and the Chorus of Satyr Drama as Time Travellers
20: Peter Swallow: The Past in a Present Genre: Nostalgia in Aristophanes
21: Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha: Bardic Temporalities: Performing, Creating, and Contesting Time
22: Alex Purves: Sappho, Alcman, and the 'Lyric Present'
23: Rioghnach Sachs: Songs for Parties or Parthenoi?: Homoerotic Temporalities and Genre in Sappho and Alcman
24: Felix Budelmann: Lyric Imperatives, Consciousness, and the Present on the Move
