Reading Voices
Five Studies in Theocritus’ Narrating Techniques
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. VI, 259 pp.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Narrative Form
- Audiences and Addressees
- The Problems of Voice and Receptions
- Reading Voices, Tracing Receptions
- Chapter 1: Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6
- Chapter 2: Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11
- Chapter 3: Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13
- Chapter 4: Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic Revisionism
- Chapter 5: Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their “Reception” in Idyll 15
- The Fragments of Structure
- “Theocritus” the Primary Narrator
- Interlocutor
- Polyphemos
- The Poetics of Self-Delusion
- Daphnis and Damoitas
- Aratos
- External Reader
- Conclusion
- Intratextual Relations
- The Prosaic Primary Narrator
- Homeric Contexts
- The Story
- The Nature of the Kyklopes’ Society
- The Nature of Polyphemos
- The Descriptive Resonance Between Odyssey 9 and Idyll 11
- The Temporal Closure Implied by the Allusions
- Polyphemos in the Optative Mood
- The Problem of Closure
- Conclusion
- Narrative Modes and Erotic Models
- Herakles “Homericized”
- A Mock-Heroic Herakles
- Epic Foreboding in the Locus Amoenus
- Militat Omnis Amans
- κυάνεόν τε χελιδόνιον or the Argo in the Underbrush
- Herakles the Argonaut
- The Argonautica “Theocritized”
- The Symposium at Sea
- The Sympotic Herakles (Intratextual Links)
- Herakles as Duseros
- Conclusion
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Pindar’s Herakles
- Theocritus’ Polymorphous Hero
- Reception Internal and External
- Conclusion
- History of Interpretation
- The Literary Mime
- Idyll 15 as a Mime
- Homeric Hospitality Scenes and Idyll 15
- Arsinoe as Epic Queen
- Philadelphos as Sesostris
- Arsinoe and Aphrodite; Adonis and Philadelphos
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Narrative Form
- Audiences and Addressees
- The Problems of Voice and Receptions
- Reading Voices, Tracing Receptions
- Chapter 1: Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6
- Chapter 2: Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11
- Chapter 3: Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13
- Chapter 4: Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic Revisionism
- Chapter 5: Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their “Reception” in Idyll 15
- The Fragments of Structure
- “Theocritus” the Primary Narrator
- Interlocutor
- Polyphemos
- The Poetics of Self-Delusion
- Daphnis and Damoitas
- Aratos
- External Reader
- Conclusion
- Intratextual Relations
- The Prosaic Primary Narrator
- Homeric Contexts
- The Story
- The Nature of the Kyklopes’ Society
- The Nature of Polyphemos
- The Descriptive Resonance Between Odyssey 9 and Idyll 11
- The Temporal Closure Implied by the Allusions
- Polyphemos in the Optative Mood
- The Problem of Closure
- Conclusion
- Narrative Modes and Erotic Models
- Herakles “Homericized”
- A Mock-Heroic Herakles
- Epic Foreboding in the Locus Amoenus
- Militat Omnis Amans
- κυάνεόν τε χελιδόνιον or the Argo in the Underbrush
- Herakles the Argonaut
- The Argonautica “Theocritized”
- The Symposium at Sea
- The Sympotic Herakles (Intratextual Links)
- Herakles as Duseros
- Conclusion
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Pindar’s Herakles
- Theocritus’ Polymorphous Hero
- Reception Internal and External
- Conclusion
- History of Interpretation
- The Literary Mime
- Idyll 15 as a Mime
- Homeric Hospitality Scenes and Idyll 15
- Arsinoe as Epic Queen
- Philadelphos as Sesostris
- Arsinoe and Aphrodite; Adonis and Philadelphos
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
Chapter 2. Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11
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POET AND METAPOESIS IN IDYLL 11
Idyll 11 is readily associated with Idyll 6 and Idyll 13. All three poems have a specific addressee and employ mythological subjects to elaborate erotic themes. Like Idyll 6, Idyll 11 offers a retrospective, mimetic account of Polyphemos’ love for Galatea. Idyll 11 has much in common with Idyll 13: both Idylls are addressed to the poet’s friend, Nicias.1 Both Idylls 11 and 13 offer an introductory frame to a mythological narrative. Legendary figures are explicitly proffered as exemplars of the power of Eros and, at least in the case of Idyll 11, how to combat his effects. Of the two, Idyll 11 inscribes within the introductory frame a more robust instantiation of Theocritus’ own narrating persona. The poet casts himself himself as a fellow Sicilian, advisor, and confidant of Nicias. ← 75 | 76 →
Idyll 11 begins with a simple gnomic declaration addressed to Nicias:
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Narrative Form
- Audiences and Addressees
- The Problems of Voice and Receptions
- Reading Voices, Tracing Receptions
- Chapter 1: Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6
- Chapter 2: Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11
- Chapter 3: Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13
- Chapter 4: Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic Revisionism
- Chapter 5: Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their “Reception” in Idyll 15
- The Fragments of Structure
- “Theocritus” the Primary Narrator
- Interlocutor
- Polyphemos
- The Poetics of Self-Delusion
- Daphnis and Damoitas
- Aratos
- External Reader
- Conclusion
- Intratextual Relations
- The Prosaic Primary Narrator
- Homeric Contexts
- The Story
- The Nature of the Kyklopes’ Society
- The Nature of Polyphemos
- The Descriptive Resonance Between Odyssey 9 and Idyll 11
- The Temporal Closure Implied by the Allusions
- Polyphemos in the Optative Mood
- The Problem of Closure
- Conclusion
- Narrative Modes and Erotic Models
- Herakles “Homericized”
- A Mock-Heroic Herakles
- Epic Foreboding in the Locus Amoenus
- Militat Omnis Amans
- κυάνεόν τε χελιδόνιον or the Argo in the Underbrush
- Herakles the Argonaut
- The Argonautica “Theocritized”
- The Symposium at Sea
- The Sympotic Herakles (Intratextual Links)
- Herakles as Duseros
- Conclusion
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Pindar’s Herakles
- Theocritus’ Polymorphous Hero
- Reception Internal and External
- Conclusion
- History of Interpretation
- The Literary Mime
- Idyll 15 as a Mime
- Homeric Hospitality Scenes and Idyll 15
- Arsinoe as Epic Queen
- Philadelphos as Sesostris
- Arsinoe and Aphrodite; Adonis and Philadelphos
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Narrative Form
- Audiences and Addressees
- The Problems of Voice and Receptions
- Reading Voices, Tracing Receptions
- Chapter 1: Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6
- Chapter 2: Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11
- Chapter 3: Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13
- Chapter 4: Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic Revisionism
- Chapter 5: Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their “Reception” in Idyll 15
- The Fragments of Structure
- “Theocritus” the Primary Narrator
- Interlocutor
- Polyphemos
- The Poetics of Self-Delusion
- Daphnis and Damoitas
- Aratos
- External Reader
- Conclusion
- Intratextual Relations
- The Prosaic Primary Narrator
- Homeric Contexts
- The Story
- The Nature of the Kyklopes’ Society
- The Nature of Polyphemos
- The Descriptive Resonance Between Odyssey 9 and Idyll 11
- The Temporal Closure Implied by the Allusions
- Polyphemos in the Optative Mood
- The Problem of Closure
- Conclusion
- Narrative Modes and Erotic Models
- Herakles “Homericized”
- A Mock-Heroic Herakles
- Epic Foreboding in the Locus Amoenus
- Militat Omnis Amans
- κυάνεόν τε χελιδόνιον or the Argo in the Underbrush
- Herakles the Argonaut
- The Argonautica “Theocritized”
- The Symposium at Sea
- The Sympotic Herakles (Intratextual Links)
- Herakles as Duseros
- Conclusion
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Point of View
- Levels of Narration: Embedded Narrators
- Pindar’s Herakles
- Theocritus’ Polymorphous Hero
- Reception Internal and External
- Conclusion
- History of Interpretation
- The Literary Mime
- Idyll 15 as a Mime
- Homeric Hospitality Scenes and Idyll 15
- Arsinoe as Epic Queen
- Philadelphos as Sesostris
- Arsinoe and Aphrodite; Adonis and Philadelphos
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index