Irene J F De Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1421774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene J F De Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene J F |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG I J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories
The narrative art of Herodotus' Histories has always been greatly admired, but it has never received an in-depth and systematic analysis. This commentary lays bare the role of the narrator and his effective handling of time, focalization, and speech in all the famous and much-loved episodes, from Croesus, via the Ionian Revolt, to the climax of Xerxes' expedition against Greece. In paying close attention to the various ways in which Herodotus str…
Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia
In memoriam Jan Maarten Bremer (1932-2023)
Spectators and Spectacle in Quintus’ Posthomerica
Quintus’ literary reputation is on the rise, in the wake of a general reappreciation of late antique literature. In my article I discuss Quintus’ use of embedded focalization: when we look at events through the eyes of one of the characters. Quintus uses this narrative device both in the same way as Homer, but also in original new ways. One such new way is the serial use of embedded focalization at the moment of arrival of a champion. The ample u…
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, includin…
Metalepsis and the Apostrophe of Heroes in Pindar
This chapter is an analysis of the metaleptic effect of apostrophe in narratives that are embedded in a lyric frame, using the example of the Pindaric epinician ode. In apostrophe, a narrator ‘turns away’ from his default addressee, but in contrast to epic, Pindaric lyric has many addressees: the chapter therefore begins with an analysis of the Pindaric ‘you’, a topic much less explored than the Pindaric ‘I’, and concludes that in an epinician od…
The Birth of the Princes’ Mirror in the Homeric Epics
Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
A hot issue in Herodotean scholarship is the structure, or rather the apparent lack of structure, of his Histories. Scholars have been troubled by the 'mglichst bunte Folge Assoziationen unsachlicher Art'1 and the 'Zerrissenheit und Vielspaltigkeit dieses Geschichtswerkes, seiner aus ungezhlten Wirklichkeitspartikeln mosaikartig zusammengestuckelten Erscheinungsform' ,2 which means that at first sight the narratees feel 'buried under an avalanche…
Time in Ancient Greek Literature
Pluperfects and the Artist in Ekphrases
This study discusses the figure of the artist in classical ekphrases, in particular the pluperfects of verbs of making of the type ἐτέτυκτο, ἤσκητο, ἐκεκόσμητο, ἐτετείχιστο, caelaverat , fecerat , struxerat which evoke that artist. After setting up a framework of the various other ways in which the artist can be represented in ekphrases, I zoom in on the pluperfects and show how they are used differently in Greek and Latin ekphrases: in Greek the…
Narratology and Classics
After Auerbach
In the first chapter of his celebrated Mimesis (1946) Auerbach discussed a specimen of Ancient Greek literature (Homer) both as the starting point of a European literary history of realism and as a comparandum to biblical storytelling. Both lines of approach have recently been given new impetuses. On the one hand there is Martin West's The East Face of Helicon , 1 which does not merely compare early Greek literature and Near Eastern literature bu…
Epic and Elegiac Poetry Homer
The Homeric epics make use of a very characteristic form of frame : the world of the similes. Upon closer inspection space turns out to be everywhere in the Homeric epics in the form of small details carefully inserted whenever the action needs them. A first and vital presenter of space is of course the Homeric narrator-focalizer , who in doing so may adopt various standpoints. This chapter discusses the manifestation of space, the form it takes,…
Introduction. Narratological Theory on Space
Preliminary Material
Index
Homer
Book XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks, which results in the death of Hector and Achilles' revenge for the death of his friend Patroclus. At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem. The introduction summarises central debates in…
Double deixis in Homeric speech
The aim of the Lexikon des frhgriechischen Epos is to increase our understanding of Homer's world through a precise analysis of his words.The way to proceed was shown by the founder of the lexicon, Bruno Snell, who famously reconstructed the Homeric notion of self, or rather the lack thereof, on the basis of a set of words.At first sight, a contribution dealing with demonstrative pronouns may not seem appropriate to a volume celebrating the compl…
From bird’s eye view to close-up The standpoint of the narrator in the Homeric epics
The Homeric Hymns
There is hardly a genre in Greek literature in which space is more important than that of the Homeric hymns. Two hymns are even devoted entirely to aetiological stories of how a god founds one of his sanctuaries: Delos and Delphi in the Hymn to Apollo and Eleusis in the Hymn to Demeter. Hymnic gods not only have cult sites but also cult objects. The combination of the miraculous divine and the anthropomorphic (route) is typical for the conception…
Space in Ancient Greek Literature
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).; Readership: All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative theory, literary history, comparative literature
Narrative
The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles ( Iliad 18.478-608) can easily be qualified as ‘the mother’ of all ekphraseis, and scholarly interest in this passage has been massive. Scholars have mainly discussed three issues: the relation between the Shield and real shields; the relation between the scenes on the Shield and the Iliad ; and the method of description. In this article I will focus on the third point. As noted famously by Lessing, the description of the S…
Narratology and the Classics
Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary,…
Time in Ancient Greek Literature
This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.; Readership: All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative theory, literary history, comparative literature
Space in Ancient Greek Literature
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).; Readership: All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative theory, literary history, comparative literature
The Subjective Style in Odysseus' Wanderings
In his celebrated article on the narrative technique of Odysseus' Wanderings (‘Ich-Erzählungen’) W. Suerbaum concludes that this character's narration is not essentially (‘wesentlich’) different from that of the primary narrator of the Odyssey (p. 163). Even though Odysseus is a first-person narrator and hence is subject to certain restrictions, these are almost completely counterbalanced by his ex eventu knowledge. For example, he can even repor…
Eurykleia and Odysseus' Scar
In this article I shall argue for an interpretation of Odyssey 19.393–466 as a flash-back taking place in the mind of Eurykleia at the moment she recognises Odysseus' scar. That Eurykleia somehow forms the connection between main story and digression has been suggested before, but so far other interpretations have been defended with more fervour. Most famous of these interpretations is the one given by E. Auerbach in the first chapter of his Mime…
Narratology and Oral Poetry
Headed by Barthes (Innombrables sont les recits du monde), narratologists claim as the object of their study a vast and heterogeneous corpus of texts: newspaper reports, history books, novels, films, comic strips, pantomime, dance, gossip, psychoanalytic sessions, etc. (Rimmon-Kenan 1983: 31).1 However, the theoretical apparatus of narratology has mainly been developed on the basis of one specimen of narrative text: the novel. This is understanda…
The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles ( Iliad 18.478-608) can easily be qualified as ‘the mother’ of all ekphraseis, and scholarly interest in this passage has been massive. Scholars have mainly discussed three issues: the relation between the Shield and real shields; the relation between the scenes on the Shield and the Iliad ; and the method of description. In this article I will focus on the third point. As noted famously by Lessing, the description of the S…
Between Word and Deed
Studies in Homeric Denomination
Pluperfects and the Artist in Ekphrases
This study discusses the figure of the artist in classical ekphrases, in particular the pluperfects of verbs of making of the type ἐτέτυκτο, ἤσκητο, ἐκεκόσμητο, ἐτετείχιστο, caelaverat , fecerat , struxerat which evoke that artist. After setting up a framework of the various other ways in which the artist can be represented in ekphrases, I zoom in on the pluperfects and show how they are used differently in Greek and Latin ekphrases: in Greek the…
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, includin…
Aristotle on the Homeric Narrator
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Three Off-Stage Characters in Euripides
The average cast of a Euripidean tragedy consists of eight different dramatic characters (ta t?? d???at?? p??s?pa), without counting the chorus. This number of different characters or roles can be related to the three actors' rule, current in Euripides' time. Apart from these dramatic characters, however, there are also characters which, though belonging to the story of the play, do not appear on the stage. These off-stage characters2) as they mi…
(Fokalisation Und Die Homerischen Gleichnisse1)
Eurykleia and Odysseus' Scar
In this article I shall argue for an interpretation of Odyssey 19.393–466 as a flash-back taking place in the mind of Eurykleia at the moment she recognises Odysseus' scar. That Eurykleia somehow forms the connection between main story and digression has been suggested before, but so far other interpretations have been defended with more fervour. Most famous of these interpretations is the one given by E. Auerbach in the first chapter of his Mime…
(A. Bonnafi, Poésie) nature et sacré, I
A. BONNAFI, Poésie) nature et sacré, I: Homère, Hésiode et le sentiment grec de la nature (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, n. 15. Série littéraire et philosophique: 3). Lyon, 1984. 272 p. Pr. FF. 150,-" published on 01 Jan 1988 by Brill
Three Off-Stage Characters in Euripides
The average cast of a Euripidean tragedy consists of eight different dramatic characters (ta t?? d???at?? p??s?pa), without counting the chorus. This number of different characters or roles can be related to the three actors' rule, current in Euripides' time. Apart from these dramatic characters, however, there are also characters which, though belonging to the story of the play, do not appear on the stage. These off-stage characters2) as they mi…
Narratology and Homeric Studies
Narratology and Oral Poetry
Headed by Barthes (Innombrables sont les recits du monde), narratologists claim as the object of their study a vast and heterogeneous corpus of texts: newspaper reports, history books, novels, films, comic strips, pantomime, dance, gossip, psychoanalytic sessions, etc. (Rimmon-Kenan 1983: 31).1 However, the theoretical apparatus of narratology has mainly been developed on the basis of one specimen of narrative text: the novel. This is understanda…
The Subjective Style in Odysseus' Wanderings
In his celebrated article on the narrative technique of Odysseus' Wanderings (‘Ich-Erzählungen’) W. Suerbaum concludes that this character's narration is not essentially (‘wesentlich’) different from that of the primary narrator of the Odyssey (p. 163). Even though Odysseus is a first-person narrator and hence is subject to certain restrictions, these are almost completely counterbalanced by his ex eventu knowledge. For example, he can even repor…
Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature
In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute,…
Studies in Homeric Denomination
In Soph. El. 774
Between Word and Deed
Narrative Drama
Homer as Literature
Islamic Mysticism Contested
Islamic mysticism was contested from the formative period of Islam till the present. Criticism of and opposition to mystical conceptions of Islam and their adherents constitute an integral part of an ongoing debate inside the Islamic tradition. Controversies and polemics concerning Islamic mysticism often shaped and coincided with socio-political configurations. This volume results from a collective effort by a group of Islamicists and area speci…
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary, first published in 2001, focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its narrativity, and pays lavish attention to the meso- and macro-levels. Drawing on the concepts of modern narratology as well as the insights of Homeric scholarship, it discusses the role of narrator and narratees, methods of characterization and description, plot-development…
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
General Index
Index of Passages
Preliminary Material
Narrative Unity and Units
The first part of this chapter gives a historical overview of the ways in which scholars have defended Herodotus' unity, concentrating on formal rather than thematic arguments. The second part of the chapter discusses the various devices which Herodotus employs to create unity. The last part of the chapter shows the working of such devices in a specific passage. The Histories consists of a series of logoi , narrative units, which are usually dema…
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary,…
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Supplements to Mnemosyne
Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission.
Aristotle on the Homeric Narrator
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Sophocles and the Greek Language. Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles' use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles' style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell's Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax' deception sp…
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