Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-10

PART I - DEFINING THE GREEK TRADITION

pp 11-12

2 - Beyond Auerbach: Homeric Narrative and the Epic of Gilgamesh

pp 13-28

3 - Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East

pp 29-54

4 - Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homer

pp 55-74

5 - Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey

pp 75-100

PART II - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK TRADITION

pp 101-102

6 - Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition

pp 103-136

7 - ‘Where do I begin?’: An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife

pp 137-155

8 - Some Ancient Views on Narrative, its Structure and Working

pp 156-174

9 - Who, Sappho?

pp 175-196

10 - The Creative Impact of the Occasion: Pindar's Songs for the Emmenids and Horace's Odes 1.12 and 4.2

pp 197-225

11 - Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage

pp 226-240

12 - Stock Situations, Topoi and the Greekness of Greek Historiography

pp 241-259

13 - Heliodorus the Hellene

pp 260-276

PART III - BEYOND GREECE

pp 277-278

14 - Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History

pp 279-297

15 - Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives

pp 298-313

16 - The Anonymous Traveller in European Literature: A Greek Meme?

pp 314-333

Bibliography

pp 334-370

Index

pp 371-380