The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical
antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms
literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here
focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of
authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome.
In a fruitful variety of ways the contributors to this volume
address the questions: what generic rules were recognized and
observed by the Greeks and Romans over the centuries; what
competing schemes were there for classifying genres and accounting
for literary change; and what role did authors play in maintaining
and developing generic contexts? Their essays look at tragedy,
epigram, hymns, rhapsodic poetry, history, comedy, bucolic poetry,
prophecy, Augustan poetry, commentaries, didactic poetry, and works
that "mix genres."
The contributors bring to this analysis a wide range of
expertise; they are, in addition to the editors, Glenn W. Most,
Joseph Day, Ian Rutherford, Deborah Boedeker, Eric Csapo, Marco
Fantuzzi, Stephanie West, Alessandro Barchiesi, Ineke Sluiter, Don
Fowler, and Stephen Hinds. The essays are drawn from a colloquium
at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies.
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