Matrices of Genre

Mary Depew is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Iowa. Dirk Obbink is University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Christ Church, Oxford.

• Introduction Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink 1. Generating Genres: The Idea of the Tragic Glenn W.Most 2. Epigram and Reader: Generic Force as (Re-)Activation of Ritual Joseph W.Day 3. Enacted and Represented Dedications: Genre and Greek Hymn Mary Depew 4. Formulas, Voice, and Death in Ehoie-Poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos, and the Odysseian Nekuia Ian Rutherford 5. Herodotus' Genre(s) Deborah Boedeker 6. From Aristophanes to Menander: Genre Transformation in Greek Comedy Eric Csapo 7. Theocritus and the Demythologizing of Poetry Mario Fantuzzi 8. Lycophron's Alexandra: "Hindsight as Foresight Makes No Sense" Stephanie West 9. Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition Alessandro Bar Hiesi 10. The Dialectics of Genre: Some Aspects of Secondary Literature and Genre in Antiquity Ineke Sluiter 11. The Didactic Plot Don Fowler 12. Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius Stephen Hinds Notes Bibliography Contributors Index In Memoriam Don Fowler

This volume consists of a collection of eleven papers on genre and generic definition in Greek and Roman literature. The contributions are divergent in both subject and approach, ranging from seldom considered, even single-instance genres, to the reception of generic traditions in Hellenistic and Roman poetry...The volume contains scholarship of a high standard with stimulating contributions both in the higher and lower genres. It can be recommended to all interested in this apparently flourishing branch of literary analysis.