Allusion, Authority, and Truth - Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

EPIC AND LYRIC

1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice

2. Remembering the Gaster

3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429

4. Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492)

5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236)

6.Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16

7.Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic

8. The Meaning of homoios (µ...) in Theogony 27and Elsewhere

9.Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality

10.Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship

DRAMA

1.Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150

2.Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy

3.Echoes from Mount Cithaeron

4.Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba

5.The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama

6.“A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen

7.Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes’ Knights and Wasps

8.Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes’ Frogs, 1482-1499)

9.Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration

PROSE

1.Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates

2.Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary?

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Publications by Pietro Pucci

General Index