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Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural,
media and literary studies for more than a decade. These
explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the
impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they
routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting
point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on
antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics
remain largely limited to individual texts, and - with some notable
exceptions - offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The
present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the
dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative
modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to
the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an
abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of
listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast
and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic,
epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of
enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality,
performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.
Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which
survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous
story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops
after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just
about satyr-drama, but also about the reception and adaptation of
Homer in classical Athens; the brutal savagery of the Homeric
monster is here replaced by an ironised presentation of Athenian
social custom. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully
explained, and there is a sophisticated literary discussion of the
play. This edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates
and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to
scholars.
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