Ebook: A Companion to Greek Literature

Introduction: A Companion to Greek Literature / Martin Hose and David Schenker ; Part I Production and Transmission ; 1 Mechanics and Means of Production in Antiquity / Lucio Del Corso ; 2 A Wound, not a World: Textual Survival and Transmission / Richard H. Armstrong ; Part II Greek Literature as a Dynamic System. 3 Orality and Literacy: Ancient Greek Literature as Oral Literature / Steve Reece ; 4 Literature in the Archaic Age / Timothy Power ; 5 Literature in the Classical Age of Greece / James McGlew ; 6 Literature in the Hellenistic World / Anatole Mori ; 7 Greek Literature in the Roman World: Introducing Imperial Greek Literature / Jason König ; 8 The Encounter with Christianity / Jan Stenger ; Part III Genres. 9 Greek Epic / Hanna M. Roisman ; 10 Lyric: Melic, Iambic, Elegiac / James Bradley Wells ; 11 The Ethics of Greek Drama / Richard Rader ; 12 Epigram and Minor Genres / Regina Höschele ; 13 Oratory: Practice and Theory / Mike Edwards ; 14 Historiography and Biography / Antonis Tsakmakis ; 15 Philosophical Writing: Treatise, Dialogue, Diatribe, Epistle / Martin Hose ; 16 The Novel / Stefan Tilg ; 17 Technical Literature / Thorsten Fögen ; Part IV The Players. 18 The Creators of Literature / Mary Lefkowitz ; 19 Users of Literature / René Nünlist ; 20 Sponsors and Enemies of Literature / David Schenker ; Part V The Places. 21 Places of Production / Martin Hose ; 22 Places of presentation / Manuel Baumbach ; 23 Topos and Topoi / Suzanne Saïd ; Part VI Literature and Knowledge. 24 Literature and Truth / Martin Hose ; 25 Knowledge of Self / Daniela Dueck ; 26 Explicit Knowledge / Markus Asper ; 27 Implicit Knowledge / David Konstan ; 28 Preserved Knowledge: Summaries and Compilations / Markus Dubischar ; Part VII Literature and Aesthetics. 29 The Language of Greek Literature / Andreas Willi ; 30 Poetic Devices in Greek Literature: Pleasure and Creative Appropriation / Nicholas Baechle ; 31 The Function of Literature / Victoria Wohl ; Part VIII The Reception of Greek Literature. 32 Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy / Emily Wilson ; 33 The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature and Western Identity / Edith Hall.