The Greek Novella in the Classical Period [Paperback]

Originally published in 1958, this book examines the place of the Athenian novella in ancient literature.Originally published in 1958, this book examines the place of the Athenian novella in ancient literature from pre-Classical literature through to tragedy, comedy and rhetoric. Trenkner attempts to reconstruct the novella of the Attic period from the surviving traces in other sources in order to bridge the gap between the novelle of Herodotus and the better-known late Hellenistic novel.Originally published in 1958, this book examines the place of the Athenian novella in ancient literature from pre-Classical literature through to tragedy, comedy and rhetoric. Trenkner attempts to reconstruct the novella of the Attic period from the surviving traces in other sources in order to bridge the gap between the novelle of Herodotus and the better-known late Hellenistic novel.Originally published in 1958, this book examines the place of the Athenian novella in ancient literature from pre-Classical literature through to tragedy, comedy and rhetoric. Trenkner attempts to reconstruct the novella of the Attic period from the surviving traces in other sources in order to bridge the gap between the novelle of Herodotus and the better-known late Hellenistic novel. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the genesis of the ancient Greek novel.Principal abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Narrative in the pre-Classical age of Greece; 2. Story-telling in Attica in the Classical period; 3. Historiography; 4. Euripidean tragedy; 5. Old comedy; 6. Middle and new comedy; 7. Rhetoric; 8. The theory of the Ionian origin of the novella in the light of Athenian narrative; 9. Athenian narrative and the Greek novel; Index of subjects; Index of motifs.