Classical closure : reading the end in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Deborah H. Roberts, Francis M. Dunn, and Don Fowler.

Other author Roberts, Deborah H.
Other author Dunn, Francis M.
Other author Fowler, Don, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxvi, 311 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Classical literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Closure (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greece--Civilization.
Rome (Italy)--Civilization.

Contents Second thoughts on closure / Don Fowler -- Equal honor and future glory : the plan of Zeus in the Iliad / Sheila Murnaghan -- Odes and ends : closure in Greek lyric / Ian Rutherford -- Wanton kings, pickled heroes and gnomic founding fathers : strategies of meaning at the end of Herodotus's Histories / Carolyn Dewald -- Ends and means in Euripides' Heracles / Francis M. Dunn -- Lucretian conclusions / Peta Fowler -- Closure in Latin epic / Philip Hardie -- Final exit : Propertius 4.11 / W.R. Johnson -- Endgames : Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 and Fasti 6 / Alessandro Barchiesi -- How novels end : some patterns of closure in ancient narrative / Massimo Fusillo -- Is death the end? : Closure in Plutarch's Lives / Christopher Pelling -- Afterword : ending and aftermath, ancient and modern / Deborah H. Roberts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-302) and index.
LCCN 96044439
ISBN069104452X (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PA3009 .C53 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold