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      Reading the Odyssey

      Jonas Grethlein

      A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our lives.

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      Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory

      Jonas Grethlein

      Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates the specific logic of ancient narrative. An invaluable introduction to ancient views of narrative…

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      Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory

      Jonas Grethlein

      Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates the specific logic of ancient narrative. An invaluable introduction to ancient views of narrative…

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      Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific…

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      The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues that the key concept of apate (meaning both…

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      The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      Investigates the field of memory in the literature of the fifth century BCE. Covers poetry and oratory as well as the works of the first Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides…

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      Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      This new approach to the temporal dynamic of historiography will appeal to classicists, ancient historians and scholars interested in the theory of history. Its application to major Greek and Roman…

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      Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific…

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      The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      Investigates the field of memory in the literature of the fifth century BCE. Covers poetry and oratory as well as the works of the first Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides…

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      Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung: Traditionen, Probleme Und Konzepte

      Literary scholars use histories of literature on a daily basis. There has been however little reflection on different forms of literary history, their advantages and flipsides. This volume tackles the…

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      Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

      The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these…

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      Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

      The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these…

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      Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine

      Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

      This new approach to the temporal dynamic of historiography will appeal to classicists, ancient historians and scholars interested in the theory of history. Its application to major Greek and Roman…

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      Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian

      References to the past embedded in historical narratives have until now not received the same systematic attention as references to the stage and poetry in plays (metatheatre) and poems (metapoetics)…

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      Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian

      References to the past embedded in historical narratives have until now not received the same systematic attention as references to the stage and poetry in plays (metatheatre) and poems (metapoetics)…

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      Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories

      Drawing on cognitive approaches to literary studies, this volume pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative that transcends the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies, deploying concepts such as immersion and…

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      The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society

      Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)

      Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an ‘intentional history’. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were…

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