In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.
- Brings together a wide range of essays, some of whose original published versions are very hard for many scholars and students to access
- Offers innovative arguments on Attic comedy, Herodotus and Hellenistic poetry and explores many fundamental issues raised by imperial Greek poetry and the Greek novels
- Presents all quotations from ancient Greek literary and epigraphic texts both in Greek and in translation
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'Bowie's work has played a crucial role in keeping classics in Britain a flourishing enterprise by showing what significant new work can be done by looking at evidence others pass over … Any reader will be dazzled by Bowie's technical mastery.' Ben Cartlidge, Times Literary Supplement

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Product details
- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107058125
- length: 750 pages
- dimensions: 251 x 176 x 59 mm
- weight: 1.96kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. 'Who is Dicaeopolis?' (1988)
2. 'Marginalia Obsceniora: some Problems in Aristophanes' Wasps' (1990)
3. 'Wine in Old Comedy' (1995)
4. 'Ionian Iambus and Old Attic Comedy: Father and Daughter, or Just Cousins?' (2002)
5. 'Socrates in Aristophanes' Clouds and the Audience of Attic Comedy' (2007)
6. 'Aristophanes Clouds: an Agonistic Note' (2015)
7. 'The Lesson of Book 2' (2018)
8. 'Theocritus' Seventh Idyll, Philetas and Longus' (1985)
9. 'Frame and Framed in Theocritus Poems 6 and 7' (1996)
10. The Reception of Apollonius Rhodius in Imperial Greek literature' (2000)
11. 'Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius' (2015)
12. 'Greek Sophists and Greek Poetry in the Second Sophistic' (1989)
13. 'Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaia' (1989)
14. 'Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age' (1990)
15. 'Hadrian and Greek poetry' (2002)
16. Dionysius of Alexandria: a Greek Poet in the Roman Empire (2004)
17. 'Luxury Cruisers? Philip's Epigrammatists between Greece and Rome' (2012)
18. 'Doing Doric' (2016)
19. 'The Novels and the Real World' (1977)
20. 'The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World' (1994)
21. 'Philostratus: Writer of Fiction' (1994)
22. 'Names and a Gem: Aspects of Allusion in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus' (1995)
23. 'The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels' (1996)
24. 'Phoenician Games in Heliodorus' Aethiopica' (1998)
25. 'The Chronology of the Earlier Greek Novels since B. E. Perry: Revisions and Precisions' (2002)
26. 'The Function of Mythology in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe' (2003)
27. 'Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe' (2005)
28. 'The Construction of the Classical Past in the Ancient Greek Novels' (2006)
29. 'Viewing and Listening on the Novelist's Page' (2006)
30. 'Direct Speech in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe' (2006)
31. 'Pulling the Other: Longus and tragedy' (2007)
32. 'Links between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius' (2007)
33. 'Literary Milieux' (2008)
34. 'The Uses of Bookishness' (2009)
35. 'Country Virtues, City Vices, in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe?' (2009)
36. 'Socrates' Cock and Daphnis' Goats. The Rarity of Vows in the Religious Practice of the Greek Novels' (2012)
37. 'Caging Grasshoppers: Longus' Materials for Plaiting 'Reality'' (2013)
38. 'Milesian Tales' (2013)
39. 'A Land without Priests? Religious Authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe' (2015)
40. 'Poetic Elements in the Greek Novelists' Prose' (2017)
41. 'Captured Moments: Illustrating Longus' Prose' (2018)
42. 'Λέξεις Λόγγου' (2019)
43. 'Animals, Slaves and Masters in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe' (2019)
44. 'The Demotion of the Literary Cowherd' (2019)
45. 'Callimachus and Longus' (2019)
46. 'Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus' (2020).
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Author
Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
EWEN BOWIE is the Emeritus E. P. Warren Praelector and Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. He writes on early Greek poetry; Comedy; Hellenistic poetry; and the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. He co-edited volumes on Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009) and Archaic and Classical Choral Song (2011), edited one on Herodotus (2018), and published a commentary on Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (Cambridge, 2019).