Greek Literature in the Classical Period : the prose of historiography and oratory / / edited with introductions by Gregory Nagy

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Edizione: 1st edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.9
• Soggetto topico: Greek literature - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): NagyGregory
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Section A. Historiography; 1. Narrative Surface and Authorial Voice in Herodotus' Histories; 2. The Historians of the Classical World and Their Audiences; 3. Who Read Herodotus' Histories?; 4. Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences and the Story of Rhapsinitus and the Thief in the Histories; 5. Herodotus and the Language of Metals; 6. Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos' Histories; 7. Herodotus the Tourist; 8. Thucydides' Use of Herodotus; 9. Thucydides in the Act of Writing ; 10. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyrean Affair in Thucydides I11. Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily; 12. Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice; 13. A Post-Modernist Thucydides; 14. Silent Women of Thucydides: 2.45.2 Re-Viewed; 15. Pseudo-Xenophon; Section B. Oratory; 16. Rhetorical Performative Discourse: A New Theory of Epideictic; 17. On Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously; 18. Dikastic Thorubos; 19. The Athenian ""Politicians,"" 403-322 B.C.; 20. Poetry and the Demos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession ; 21. Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory22. The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches; 23. The Epiphany of Demosthenes; Copyright Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [e-mail].]]>
• Titolo autorizzato: Greek Literature in the Classical Period
• ISBN: 1-136-54051-2; 1-136-54044-X; 0-203-05590-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807234603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Greek literature series ; ; Volume 5.