The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021

Richard Hunter

Published by De Gruyter 2021

The Layers of the Text

Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021

Richard Hunter
Edited by: Antonios Rengakos and Evangelos Karakasis

Volume 127 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747577

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About this book

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).

Author / Editor information

R. Hunter, University of Cambridge, UK; Eds.: A. Rengakos & E. Karakasis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of the Original Publication Venues Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Papers not Included in the Present Collection Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Part I: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
1 Alcibiades the Laughter-maker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3 ‘Where do I begin?’: An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Part II: Ancient Drama
4 The Garland of Hippolytus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5 Apollo and the Ion of Euripides: Nothing to do with Nietzsche? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
6 Comedy and Reperformance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Part III: Hellenistic Poetry
7 Language and Interpretation in Greek Epigram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8 The Gods of Callimachus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
9 Festivals, Cults and the Construction of Consensus in Hellenistic Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
10 Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 Sweet Stesichorus: Theocritus 18 and the Helen Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
12 A Philosophical Death? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
13 Hellenistic Poetry and the Archaeology of Leisure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
14 Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
15 Reading and Citing the Epigrams of Callimachus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
16 Enkelados: Callimachus fr. 1.36 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
17 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
18 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Part IV: Latin Literature
19 Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
20 One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
21 Horace’s other Ars Poetica: Epistles 1.2 and Ancient Homeric Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
22 Some Dramatic Terminology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
23 Regius urget: Hellenising Thoughts on Latin Intratextuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
24 The Geographies of Plautus’ Menaechmi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Part V: The Ancient Novel
25 Fictional Anxieties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
26 Rythmical Language and Poetic Citation in Greek Narrative Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	462
Part VI: Ancient Criticism and Scholarship
27 The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
28 Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	506
29 Attic Comedy in the Rhetorical and Moralising Traditions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
30 ‘Clever about Verses’?: Plato and the ‘Scopas Ode’ (PMG 542 = 260 Poltera) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
31 Serpents in the Soul: The ‘Libyan Myth’ of Dio Chrysostom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	560
32 ‘Palaephatus’, Strabo and the Boundaries of Myth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	578
33 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	598
34 The Hippias Minor and the Traditions of Homeric Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633
35 Autobiography as Literary History: Dio Chrysostom, On exile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	659
36 Eustathian Moments: Reading Eustathius’ Commentaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	682
37 Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Idea of the Critic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	750
38 Dio Chrysostom and the Citation of Tragedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	770
39 Some Problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	787
Part VII: Miscellaneous
40 The Letter of Aristeas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	811
41 Pulling Apollo Apart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	824
42 The Poetics of Greek Inscriptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	850
43 John Malalas and the Story of the Cyclops Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	875
44 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	883
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	909
Index of Passages Discussed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	915

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Graduate students and scholars in Greek and Latin literature and the intellectual culture of classical antiquity
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 923
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: literature; criticism; antiquity

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Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110747577

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Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110747560

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Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111276496