Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature 1Martin Hose and David Schenker
Part I Production and Transmission 7
1 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity 9Lucio Del Corso
2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission 27Richard H. Armstrong
Part II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System 41
3 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature 43Steve Reece
4 Literature in the Archaic Age 58Timothy Power
5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece 77James McGlew
6 Literature in the Hellenistic World 89Anatole Mori
7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature 112Jason König
8 The Encounter with Christianity 126Jan Stenger
Part III Genres 139
9 Greek Epic 141Hanna M. Roisman
10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac 155James Bradley Wells
11 The Ethics of Greek Drama 175Richard Rader
12 Epigram and Minor Genres 190Regina Höschele
13 Oratory: Practice and Theory 205Mike Edwards
14 Historiography and Biography 217Antonis Tsakmakis
15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle 235Martin Hose
16 The Novel 256Stefan Tilg
17 Technical Literature 266Thorsten Fögen
Part IV The Players 281
18 The Creators of Literature 283Mary Lefkowitz
19 Users of Literature 296René Nünlist
20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature 310David Schenker
Part V The Places 323
21 Places of Production 325Martin Hose
22 Places of Presentation 344Manuel Baumbach
23 Topos and Topoi 353Suzanne Saïd
Part VI Literature and Knowledge 371
24 Literature and Truth 373Martin Hose
25 Knowledge of Self 386Daniela Dueck
26 Explicit Knowledge 401Markus Asper
27 Implicit Knowledge 415David Konstan
28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations 427Markus Dubischar
Part VII Literature and Aesthetics 441
29 The Language of Greek Literature 443Andreas Willi
30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation 461Nicholas Baechle
31 The Function of Literature 476Victoria Wohl
Part VIII The Reception of Greek Literature 489
32 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy 491Emily Wilson
33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity 511Edith Hall
Index 534