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Beginnings in Classical Literature (Paperback)
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Beginnings in Classical Literature (Paperback)
Series: Yale Classical Studies
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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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