Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

Jonas Grethlein holds the Chair in Greek Literature at Heidelberg University. He has been awarded the Maier-Leibnitz Prize, received an ERC starting grant, and was a Gerda Henkel Fellow at Brown University and a Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. His monographs include Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures (CUP, 2017), Die Odyssee: Homer und die Kunst des Erzählens (C. H. Beck, 2017), Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (CUP, 2013), and The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (CUP, 2010).Luuk Huitink is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics at Leiden University. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC Project 'Ancient Narrative' at Heidelberg University, Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford, and Spinoza Visiting Fellow at Leiden University. His work focuses on classical Greek prose, and in particular on intersections between linguistics, narratology, and cognition.Aldo Tagliabue is currently an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Notre Dame. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC Project 'Ancient Narrative' at Heidelberg University, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics at the University of Milan, and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Lampeter. His work focuses on ancient Greek narratives, and in particular on the Greek novels and the intersections between narrative, the divine, and experience.

• FrontmatterList of IllustrationsList of Contributors0: Jonas Grethlein, Luuk Huitink, and Aldo Tagliabue: Narrative and Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Greece: An IntroductionPart I: Ancient Narrative1: Rutger J. Allan: Narrative Immersion: Some Linguistic and Narratological Aspects2: David Fearn: The Allure of Narrative in Greek Lyric Poetry3: Felix Budelmann and Evert van Emde Boas: Attending to Tragic Messenger Speeches4: Lisa I. Hau: Pathos with a Point: Reflections on 'Sensationalist' Narratives of Violence in Hellenistic Historiography in the Light of 21st-Century Historiography5: Aldo Tagliabue: Experiencing the Church in the Book of Visions of the Shepherd of HermasPart II: Ancient Criticism6: Jonas Grethlein: World and Words: The Limits to Mimesis and Immersion in Heliodorus' Ethiopica7: Casper C. De Jonge: Longinus on Ecstasy: Author, Audience, and Text8: Alex Purves: Rough Reading: Tangible Language in Dionysius' Criticism of Homer9: Luuk Huitink: Enargeia and Bodily Mimesis10: Alessandro Vatri: Asyndeton, Immersion, and Hypokrisis in Ancient Greek RhetoricPart III: Media and Context11: Laura Gianvittorio: Dancing the War Report in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes12: Nikolaus Dietrich: Narrative, Experience, and the Image: Incomplete Copies in Imperial Age Sculpture13: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Lived Aesthetics and the Inner NarrativeEndmatterWorks CitedGeneral IndexIndex of Places

the volume successfully introduces significant concepts of cognitive narratology into classics by covering diverse areas (ancient narratives, rhetorical treatises, sculpture, pottery). It is hoped that this volume in the series 'Cognitive Classics' will be the beginning for other, equally stimulating volumes.