Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, Deborah H.
• Dunn, Francis M.
• Fowler, Don, 1955-

Description

xvi, 311 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Closure (Rhetoric)
• Rome > Civilization
• Greece > Civilization
• Classical literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Narration (Rhetoric)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-302) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 97-8182

ISBN

069104452X (alk. paper)

LCCN

96044439

OCLC

35718583

Title

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

Imprint

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-302) and index.

Added Author

Roberts, Deborah H.

Dunn, Francis M.

Fowler, Don, 1955-

Research Call Number

JFE 97-8182