Narrators, Narratees, And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature — Studies In Ancient Greek Narrative

To launch the series, contributors presumably from classics or literary criticism focus on the formal devices within ancient Greek texts that authors use to enchant or persuade their readers. They look at such issues as who introduces readers to the fictional world depicted, through whose eyes they see it, how the events follow each other and combine to form a logical whole, how the people who live in this fictional world are presented, and how their words--the prime indicators of their personalities--represented. Synchronic and diachronic approaches are combined to analyze not only the handling of a specific narrative device by individual authors, but also to provide a larger historical perspective on how techniques change over time. Each contributor focuses on one author. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Irene J.F. de Jong, Ph.D. (1987) in Ancient Greek Literature, University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in the narratological analysis of ancient Greek texts; her publications include Narrators and Focalizers. The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad (1987, repr. 2004) and A Narratological commentary on the Odyssey (2001).Rene Nunlist, Ph.D. (1996) in Classics, University of Basel, is William A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. He is the author of Poetologische Bildersprache in der fruhgriechischen Dichtung (1998) and co-author of the new Basel commentary on the Iliad (2000-).Angus Bowie is Fellow of The Queen's College and Lecturer in Classical Languages in Oxford.