Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, they put forward tersely considered arguments that have the weight of much longer discussions. Exacting attention to language and detail combines with clear-sighted openness to new developments within and beyond the discipline to allow the texts to speak in deeply human terms. This collection gathers significant articles from all stages of Easterling's career, many of them major points of reference. Volume 1 is devoted to Greek tragedy, and represents in particular her great affinity for Sophocles. Volume 2 presents work on other Greek literature, acting, transmission, scholia, reception, history of scholarship. Reflecting Easterling's extensive academic ties, several of the articles were originally published in less well-known volumes and are here made more widely available.
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This two-volume edition gathers a generous selection of Pat Easterling's most significant articles on Greek tragedy and other topics.
Part I. The Iliad and Early Greek Literature:
1. Agamemnon's skptron in
the Iliad;
2. Men's and women's : female voices in the Iliad;
3.
Holy thebe;
4. Alcman 58 and Simonides 37;
5. Looking for Omphale;
6.
Friendship and the Greeks; Part II. Actors:
7. Actors and voices: reading
between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes';
8. Actor as icon; Part III.
Manuscripts and Transmission:
9. From Britain to Byzantium: the study of
Greek manuscripts; Before palaeography: notes on early descriptions and
datings of Greek manuscripts;
10. Menander loss and survival;
11. Fata
libellorum: Hyperides and the transmission of Attic oratory; Part IV.
Scholia:
12. Notes on notes: The ancient scholia on Sophocles;
13. The Chorus
in Greek tragedy according to the ancient commentaries (translated by Laura
Slatkin);
14. and its cognates in the Sophoclean scholia;
15. Space in
the tragic scholia;
16. Sophocles and the Byzantine student;
17. Reading
Sophocles with Manuel Moschopoulos; Part V. Reception and History of
Scholarship:
18. Agamemnon for the ancients dramatic identities: Tragedy in
late antiquity (with Richard Miles);
19. George Eliot and Greek tragedy;
20.
Richard Jebb: general introduction;
21. 'The speaking page': reading
Sophocles with Richard Jebb;
22. The early years of the Cambridge Greek play:
18821912;
23. Gibert Murray's reading of Euripides;
24. Sophocles: the first
thousand years;
25. The survival of Greek;
26. A taste for the classics;
Works cited; Index locorum; General index.
P. E. EASTERLING is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. She founded (together with Ted Kenney) the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, to which her Sophocles: Trachiniae (1982) and Oedipus at Colonus (in preparation) belong. Her extensive editorial activity includes The Cambridge History of Greek Literature (with Bernard Knox, 1985), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (1997) and Greek and Roman Actors (with Edith Hall, 2002). FELIX BUDELMANN is Professor of Classics at the University of Groningen. EVELINE KRUMMEN is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Graz.
