Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Hodkinson, Owen (EDT)/ Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. (EDT)/ Bracke, Evelien

Brill Academic Pub（2013/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 412 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004249608
• DDC分類 886.0109

Full Description

The literary letter was one of the most versatile and popular forms of writing in Greek antiquity, yet one of the least widely studied today. The use of the letter within narrative or as narrative medium is something which the Ancient Greek literary tradition established as central to the western world (especially through the letters of Plato, Hippocrates and the Christian epistolographers). This volume presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections. By comparison of the various narrative strategies taken within Greek epistolary texts across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, the volume takes a significant step towards the appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative
A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon
1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie
3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera

B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous
4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the 'Platonic' Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison
5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon
6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera

II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives
A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity
7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh
8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason König
9) Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater

B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions
10) Odysseus' Letter to Kalypso in Lucian's Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bär
11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath
12) Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk

C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form
13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan
14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson

III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives
15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson
16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty

Bibliography
Indices