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Beginnings in classical literature / edited for the Department of Classics by Francis M. Dunn and Thomas Cole

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Dunn, Francis M. and Cole, Thomas, 1933-
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Beginning at Colonus / Francis M. Dunn -- How Greek poems begin / William H. Race -- The Muse corrects: the opening of the Odyssey / Victoria Pedrick -- Sappho 16, Gorgias' Helen, and the preface to Herodotus' Histories / Hayden Pelliccia -- Tragic beginnings: narration, voice, and authority in the prologues of Greek drama / Charles Segal -- Plato's first words / Diskin Clay -- Plautine negotiations: the Poenulus prologue unpacked / Niall W. Slater -- Proems in the middle / Gian Biagio Conte -- Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes: poet, patron, and audience / Barbara K. Gold -- An aristocracy of virtue: Seneca on the beginnings of wisdom / Thomas N. Habinek -- Beginnings in Plutarch's Lives / Thomas G. Rosenmeyer -- "Initium mihi operis Galba iterum T. Vinius consules ..." / Thomas Cole.
Summary
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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9780511933707 (ebook)
9780521413190 (hardback)
9780521124560 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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