By Rene Nunlist, Angus M Bowie, Irene Jong
This can be the 1st in a sequence of volumes which jointly will offer a completely new historical past of historic Greek (narrative) literature. Its association is formal instead of biographical. It lines the background of significant narrative units, resembling the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It deals not just analyses of the dealing with of this kind of gadget via person authors, but in addition a bigger historic point of view at the demeanour within which it alterations through the years and is positioned to assorted makes use of through varied authors in numerous genres. the 1st quantity lays the root for all volumes to return, discussing the definition and bounds of narrative, and the jobs of its manufacturer, the narrator, and recipient, the narratees.
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G. the death of the Trojan Hippothous in Il. 300–303 (‘he collapsed … far away from generous Larisa, and he could not render again the care of his dear parents; he was short-lived, beaten down beneath the spear of high-hearted Ajax’) combines the three pathetic motifs of ‘far from home’, ‘short life’, and ‘bereaved parents’. g. by narrating the suitors’ gleeful anticipation of Telemachus’ trip abroad and Euryclea’s concern one after the 15 Cf. further Il. 713–715; Od. 241–242. De Jong 1987: 68–77; Richardson 1990: 187–191; Nesselrath 1992; and Louden 1993.
5 The Homeric narrator is also omnipresent: he recounts what happens among the gods on Mount Olympus and among the heroes on earth, in the Greek camp and in Troy, on Ithaca and such remote places as the island of Calypso, regularly switching back and forth between the different locations. An external, omniscient, and omnipresent narrator is in fact the archetypal narrator of early storytelling. Interestingly enough, the Homeric narrator accounts for his omniscience: it is the result of his collaboration with the Muses, who are eyewitnesses of everything that happens in the world (Il.
Il. 1, Od. 1, Hes. W&D. 1. A third type begins with an invocation of the god to whom the hymn is dedicated: h. g. Richardson 1974: 3), 21, 24 and 29. Dem. Ap. Herm. Aphr. 54 (in all eight cases the adverb tote ‘then’). Herm. 125–126, 508. Cf. the notorious hoioi nun brotoi passages in Homer (→). 7 On the Hymn to Apollo, which is exceptional in several respects, see below; the other exceptions are h. 8, 21, 22, 24, 29 and 30 (cf. the exceptions in n. 5). 8 This reluctance to address the narratee extends to an avoidance of the particle toi in the narrator-text (for Homer and Hesiod see chapter on Hesiod).
