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Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical 'nonsense' in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics.
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• Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson
• Part 1 - The Homeric Hymns
• 1 Constructing a Hymnic Narrative: Tradition and Innovation in the Longer Homeric Hymns N. Richardson
• 2 The Silence of Zeus: Speech in the Homeric Hymns A. Faulkner
• Part 2 - Hellenistic Hymns
• 3 Callimachus and His Narrators S.A. Stephens
• 4 Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus'
• A. Vergados
• 5 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus, and Limenius E.L. Bowie
• Part 3 - Imperial Greek Hymns
• 6 Narrative in a Late Hymn to Dionysos (P. Ross. Georg. i.11) W.D. Furley
• 7 Narrative Technique and Generic Hybridity in Aelius Aristides' Prose Hymns O. Hodkinson
• 8 Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre M. Brumbaugh
• 9 A Philosopher and His Muse: The Narrative of Proclus' Hymns N. Devlin
• Part 4 - Orphic Hymns and "Magical Hymns"
• 10 The Narrative Techniques of the Orphic Hymns A-F. Morand
• 11 The Poet and His Addressees in Orphic Hymns M. Herrero de Jauregui
• 12 Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae I. Petrovic Bibliography Index of Ancient Passages General Index.
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Ancient Greek hymns traditionally include a narrative section describing episodes from the hymned deity's life. These narratives developed in parallel with epic and other narrative genres, and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or magical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellenistic and Imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri, analysing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature.
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• Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson
• Part 1 - The Homeric Hymns
• 1 Constructing a Hymnic Narrative: Tradition and Innovation in the Longer Homeric Hymns N. Richardson
• 2 The Silence of Zeus: Speech in the Homeric Hymns A. Faulkner
• Part 2 - Hellenistic Hymns
• 3 Callimachus and His Narrators S.A. Stephens
• 4 Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus'
• A. Vergados
• 5 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus, and Limenius E.L. Bowie
• Part 3 - Imperial Greek Hymns
• 6 Narrative in a Late Hymn to Dionysos (P. Ross. Georg. i.11) W.D. Furley
• 7 Narrative Technique and Generic Hybridity in Aelius Aristides' Prose Hymns O. Hodkinson
• 8 Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre M. Brumbaugh
• 9 A Philosopher and His Muse: The Narrative of Proclus' Hymns N. Devlin
• Part 4 - Orphic Hymns and "Magical Hymns"
• 10 The Narrative Techniques of the Orphic Hymns A-F. Morand
• 11 The Poet and His Addressees in Orphic Hymns M. Herrero de Jauregui
• 12 Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae I. Petrovic Bibliography Index of Ancient Passages General Index.
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• Part 2. Hellenistic Hymns
• Chapter 3. Callimachus and His Narrators (Stephens)
• The Hymns as a Collection and the Homeric Hymns
• Callimachean Narrators
• A Narrating aoidos-- Intradiegetic Narrators
• Ambiguous Narrators
• The Experiential Context
• Chapter 4. Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus' ‭Λουτρὰ Παλλάδος‬ (Vergados)
• Chapter 5. Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius (Bowie)
• Philicus
• Philodamus
• Time and Place, Speech and Narrative in Philodamus
• Limenius
• Brief Conclusions

Ancient Greek hymns traditionally include a narrative section describing episodes from the hymned deity's life. These narratives developed in parallel with epic and other narrative genres, and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or magical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellenistic and Imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri, analysing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon 1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie 3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous 4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the `Platonic' Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison 5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon 6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity 7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh 8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason Koenig 9) Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions 10) Odysseus' Letter to Kalypso in Lucian's Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bar 11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath 12) Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form 13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan 14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives 15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson 16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty Bibliography Indices.
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The literary letter was one of the most versatile and popular forms of writing in Greek antiquity, yet one of the least widely studied today. The use of the letter within narrative or as narrative medium is something which the Ancient Greek literary tradition established as central to the western world (especially through the letters of Plato, Hippocrates and the Christian epistolographers). This volume presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections. By comparison of the various narrative strategies taken within Greek epistolary texts across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, the volume takes a significant step towards the appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction, Owen Hodkinson and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer I. Epistolary Forms: Letters in Narrative, Letters as Narrative A. Epistolary Writing in Extended Narratives: Letters in Euripides, Herodotus, and Xenophon 1) The Appearance of Letters on Stages and Vases, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 2) Letters in Herodotus, Angus Bowie 3) Letters in Xenophon, Deborah Gera B. Correspondences of Historical Figures: Authentic and Pseudonymous 4) Narrative and Epistolarity in the `Platonic' Epistles, Andrew D. Morrison 5) Epistolary Epicureans, Pamela Gordon 6) The Letters of Euripides, Orlando Poltera II. Innovation and Experimentation in Epistolary Narratives A. Epistolarity and Other Narrative Forms: Generic Hybridity 7) Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Between Alexander and Darius, Tim Whitmarsh 8) Alciphron and the Sympotic Letter Tradition, Jason Koenig 9) Lucian's Saturnalian Epistolarity, Niall Slater B. Embedded Letters in Longer Fictions 10) Odysseus' Letter to Kalypso in Lucian's Verae Historiae, Silvio F. Bar 11) Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius, Ian Repath 12) Letters in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Dimitri Kasprzyk C. Short Stories in Epistolary Form 13) The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Tralles, John Morgan 14) Epistolarity and Narrative in ps.-Aeschines Epistle 10, Owen Hodkinson III. Jewish and Early Christian Epistolary Narratives 15) Letters in the War between Rome and Judaea, Ryan Olson 16) The Function of the Letter Form in Christian Martyrdom Accounts, Jane Mclarty Bibliography Indices.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The literary letter was one of the most versatile and popular forms of writing in Greek antiquity, yet one of the least widely studied today. The use of the letter within narrative or as narrative medium is something which the Ancient Greek literary tradition established as central to the western world (especially through the letters of Plato, Hippocrates and the Christian epistolographers). This volume presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections. By comparison of the various narrative strategies taken within Greek epistolary texts across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, the volume takes a significant step towards the appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)