The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece

The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece

Claude Calame

Translated from the French by Janice Orion ; preface by Jean-Claude Coquet

Enunciations -- Introduction: The enunciation, its utterance, and its subjects in Ancient Greece -- Epic and lyric poetry: The projection of the I and its oral discourse onto the divine authority -- Hesiod: Mastery over poetic narration and the inspiration of the Muses -- Herodotus: Historical discourse or literary narrative? -- Tragedy and the mask: To stage the self and confront the differentiated -- Vase paintings: Representation and enunciation in the gaze and the mask -- Representations -- Myth and tale: The legend of the Cyclops and its narrative transformations -- Narrative and names: Laconian women's names as figures of speech -- Myth and rite: Theseus and the double utterance of a space.

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