CLASSICAL LITERATURE, LITERARY THEORY AND RHETORIC

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Feminist:

Ancient Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Ancient Thought

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Ancient Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Ancient Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II, Finnish Institute at Athens, February 9-10

2008:

Fragmented Narrative: the Narratology of the Greek Letter, Department of Classics, University of Wales Lampeter, September 21–24
Classics (Especially Greek Literature) and the Cognitive Sciences, Open University, July 4-5
Time and Space in Early Greek Elegiac, Iambic and Lyric Poetry, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, June 20-21
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh,

June 13-15
The Reception of Greek and Roman Drama, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, June 12-13
Theory and Reception, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, April 24
Proxima Poetis: Ancient Historiography and the Imperial Latin Poets, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, April 11-12
Concepts of Pictorial Representation in the Hermeneutics of Greek Vase-Painting, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, April 9-11
The Classical Sublime, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, March 14-15

2007:

Graeco-Aegyptica / Aegypto-Graeca: Interactions between Greece and Egypt, 700 BCE - 300 CE, Department of Classics, University of Reading, September 17-19
Greek Drama and the Polis: New Work in Progress, School of Classics, University of St Andrews, September 13
Why Athens? Reappraising Tragic Politics, Department of Classics, University of Reading, September 10-11
The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature, a KYKNOS Conference, University College Cork, August 29-31
Lies and Metafiction in Ancient Narrative, Kyknos: Centre for Research on Ancient Narrative Literature, University of Wales, Swansea, University of Wales, Lampeter, and University of Exeter, July 14-16
Greek Drama IV, Victoria University of Wellington, July 3-6

2006:

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COURSES

Literature:

Princeton University: Greek Tragedy -- Aeschylus (Zeitlin)

Literary Theory:

Rhetoric:

Arizona State University: Classical Rhetoric (Goggin)
University of British Columbia: Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Persuasion (Segal)
University of Minnesota: Classical Rhetorical Tradition (Walzer)
University of Missouri, Columbia: Ancient Rhetoric and its Postmodern Reception (Comas)
Syracuse University: Classical Rhetoric (Howard)
Wake Forest University: Classical Rhetoric (Zulick)
Willamette University: Classical Rhetoric (Collins)
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Classical Rhetoric (Fleming)

JOURNALS

Literature:

Rhetoric:

PERSONS

Literary Authors:

Greece:
- Homer (c. 8th Century BCE)
- Hesiod (c. 8th Century BCE)
- Aeschylus (c.525 - c.456 BCE)
- Pindar (c.522 - 443 BCE)
- Sophocles (c. 496 - c.406 BCE)
- Euripides (c.480 - c.406 BCE)
- Aristophanes (c.448 - c.386 BCE)
Rome:
- Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254 – 184 BCE)
- Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 - c.54 BCE)
- Publius Vergilius Maro (c.70 - c.19 BCE) [Virgil]
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (c.65 - c.8 BCE) [Horace]
- Publius Ovidius Naso (c.43 BCE - c.17 CE) [Ovid]
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE) [Seneca the Younger]
- Gaius Petronius Arbiter (c.27 – 66 )

Literary Theorists

Rhetoricians:

Greece:
- Sophists (c.450 - c.350 BCE)
- Isocrates (436 - 338 BCE)
Rome:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BCE)
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 - 95 CE) [Quintilian]

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Literature:
  - Reardon, B. P., ed. Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Berkeley: U of California P, 2008.
- Literary Theory:
  - Dorsch, T. S., ed. and trans. Classical Literary Criticism. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
  - Laird, Andrew, ed. Oxford Readings in Ancient Literary Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
  - Preminger, Alex, O. B. Hardison, and Kevin Kerrane, eds. Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1971.
  - Russell, D. A., and M. Winterbottom, eds. Ancient Literary Criticism: the Principle Texts in New Translations. Oxford: OUP, 1972.
- Rhetoric:
  - Ballif, Michelle, and Michael G. Moran, eds. Classical Rhetoric and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.
  - Benson, Thomas W., and Michael H. Prosser, eds. Readings in Classical Rhetoric. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1972.
  - Matsen, Patricia P., ed. Readings from Classical Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.
Selected Individual Works:
- Literature:
- Literary Theory:
- Rhetoric:
  - Anon. Rhetorica ad Herennium. c.84 BCE.
    - Book IV. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. New York: Bedford, 2000. 243-282.

On-Line:

Literature:
Literary Theory:
Rhetoric:
- Anon: Rhetorica ad Herennium

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Literary Criticism:
  - Goldhill, Simon, and Robin Osborne, eds. Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  - Halperin, David, John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. Before Sexuality: Structures of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.
  - Hardwick, Lorna, and Christopher Stray, eds. Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
  - de Jong, I. J. F., and R. Nuenlist, eds. Time in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. 2 Vols. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
  - Scourfield, J. H. D., ed. Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2007.
  - Taplin, Oliver, ed. Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: a New Perspective. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
  - Winkler, John J., and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. Nothing to Do With Dionysos: Athenian Drama in its Social Context. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
- Literary Theory:
  - Kennedy, George A., ed. Classical Criticism. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1989.
  - Russell, D. A., ed. Criticism in Antiquity. London: Duckworth, 1981.
- Rhetoric:
  - Murphy, James J., ed. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1983. Rpt. 1995.
  - Porter, Stanley E., ed. Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 BC- AD 400. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
  - Schiappa, Edward, ed. Landmark Essays on Classical Greek Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.
  - Worthington, Ian, ed. A Companion to Greek Rhetoric. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Selected Individual Works:
- Literary Criticism:
  - Carter, D. M. The Politics of Greek Tragedy. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007.
  - Csapo, Eric, and W. J. Slater. The Context of Ancient Drama. 1995.
  - Detienne, Marcel.
  - Easterling, P. E., and B. M. W. Knox. Greek Literature. Vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
  - Goldhill, Simon. How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.
  - Goldhill, Simon. The Invention of Prose. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
  - Goldhill, Simon. Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.
  - Goldhill, Simon. Language, Sexuality and Narrative. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  - Goldhill, Simon. Foucault's Virginity. Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
  - Goldhill, Simon. The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature. Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
  - Goldhill, Simon. Reading Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: CUP, 1986.
  - Heath, Malcolm. Unity in Greek Poetics. Oxford: OUP, 1989.
  - Heath, Malcolm. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London: , 1987.
  - Loraux, Nicole. The Invention of Athens: the Funeral Oration in the Classical City. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
  - Loraux, Nicole. The Mourning Voice: an Essay on Greek Tragedy. Trans. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.
  - Loraux, Nicole. The Divided City: on Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens. Trans. Corinne Pache and Jeff Fort. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
  - Loraux, Nicole. Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens. Trans. Selina Stewart. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.
  - Loraux, Nicole. The Experiences of Tiresias. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.
  - Loraux, Nicole. Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.
  - Loraux, Nicole. Les Enfants d'Athéna: Idées Athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des sexes. Paris: Maspero, 1981.
    - The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes. Trans. Caroline Levine. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.
  - Muller, K. O., and John William Donaldson. A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece. London: John W. Parker, 1858.
  - Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. Greek Tragedy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
  - Seaford, Richard. Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  - Seaford, Richard. Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State. Oxford: OUP 1994.
  - Stephens, Susan A. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003.
  - Vasunia, Phiroze. The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
  - Vernant, Jean-Pierre.
  - Vidal-Naquet, Pierre.
  - Whitmarsh, Tim. Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity, 2004.
  - Zeitlin, Froma I. Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
- Literary Theory:
  - General:
    - Atkins, J. W. H. Literary Criticism in Antiquity: a Sketch of its Development. 2 Vols. Cambridge: CUP, 1934.
    - Grube, G. M. A. The Greek and Roman Critics. London: Methuen, 1965.
    - Harland, Richard. "Literary Theory in Classical Times." Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
    - Harland, Richard. "Rhetorical Criticism." Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 3-6.
    - Harriott, Rosemary. Poetry and Criticism before Plato. London: Methuen, .
    - McKeon, Richard. "Literary Criticism and the Concept of Imitation in Antiquity." Modern Philology 34 (1936): .
      - Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern. Ed. R. S. Crane. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952. 147-175.
    - Too, Yun Lee. The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
    - Walker, Jeffrey. Rhetoric and and Poetics in Antiquity. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
  - Greece:
  - Rome:
    - Fantham, Elaine. "The Growth of Literature and Criticism at Rome." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 220-244.
    - Fantham, Elaine. "Latin Criticism of the Early Empire." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 274-297.
    - Innes, Doreen C. "Augustan Critics." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 245-273.
    - Kennedy, George A. "Hellenistic Literary and Philological Scholarship." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 200-219.
    - Russell, Donald A. "Greek Criticism of the Empire." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 297-329.
- Rhetoric:
  - Atwill, Janet. Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998.
  - Baldwin, Charles Sears. Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1959.
  - Clark, Donald. Rhetoric in Greco-Roman Education. New York: Columbia UP, 1957.
  - Cole, Thomas. The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.
  - Corbett, Edward P. J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford: OUP, 1965.
  - Fantham, Elaine. "Rhetoric at Rome." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 227-230.
  - Goyet, Francis Le Sublime du 'lieu commun': l'Invention rhétorique dans l'Antiquité et à la Renaissance. Honoré Champion, 1996.
  - Habinek, Thomas. Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
  - Harland, Richard. "Rhetorical Criticism." Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 3-6.
  - Kennedy, George A. "Language and Meaning in Archaic and Classical Greece." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1989. 78-91.
  - Kennedy, George A. "Hellenistic Rhetoric." Classical Criticism. Ed. George A. Kennedy. Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 198-199.
  - Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980.
  - Kennedy, George A. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. [abridged version of three items below]
  - Kennedy, George A. Greek Rhetoric Under Christian Emperors. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.
  - Kennedy, George A. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300 BC-AD 300. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.
  - Kennedy, George A. The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
  - Pernot, Laurent. La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité. 2000.
    - Rhetoric In Antiquity. Trans. William Edward Higgins. Catholic UP of America, 2005.
  - Romilly, Jacqueline de. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1975.
  - Schiappa, Edward. Protagoras and Logos: a Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. Charleston: U of South Carolina P, 2003.
  - Schiappa, Edward. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
  - Schiappa, Edward. "'Rhetorike': What's in a Name? Toward a Revised History of Early Greek Rhetorical Theory." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 1-15.
  - Todorov, Tzvetan. "The Birth of Western Semiotics" and "The Splendour and Misery of Rhetoric." Theories of the Symbol. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982. 15-59 and 60-83.
  - Walker, Jeffrey. Rhetoric and Poetic in Antiquity. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
  - Wardy, Robert. The Birth of Rhetoric. London: Routledge, 1996.

On-Line:

Literary Criticism:
- Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
  - Ancient Literature:
    - Ancient Greek Literature
    - Latin Literature
Literary Theory:
Rhetoric:
- Goggin, Maureen: Selected Bibliography on Classical Rhetoric(s)
- Simpson, David L.: Classical Rhetoric

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