| Beginnings in Classical Literature Contributor(s): Dunn, Francis M. (Editor), Cole, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0511933703 ISBN-13: 9780511933707 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Open Ebook - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2011 Click for more in this series: Yale Classical Studies (Audio) |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - History | Ancient - General - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 880.09 |
| Series: Yale Classical Studies (Audio) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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| Publisher Description: The ways in which literary works begin have proved fascinating to readers and critics at least since Aristophanes. This collection of essays gives life to a topic of perennial interest by presenting a variety of original readings in nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature. The subjects of these essays range from narrative voices in the opening of the Odyssey to ideological reasons for Tacitus' choice of a beginning in the Histories, and from a survey of opening devices in Greek poetry to the playwright's negotiations with the audience in Roman comedy. Other papers discuss 'false starts' in Gorgias and Herodotus, the prologues of Greek tragedy, Plato's 'frame' dialogues, delayed proems in Virgil, the role of the patron in Horace, aristocratic beginnings in Seneca, and 'inappropriate' prefaces in Plutarch. By embracing a variety of authors and a broad range of approaches, from formal analysis of opening devices to post-structural interpretation, these twelve contributions by both younger and established scholars offer an exciting new perspective on beginnings in classical literature. |
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