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CLASSICAL CLOSURE CLASSICAL CLOSURE READING THE END IN GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE Edited by Deborah H. Roberts, Francis M. Dunn, and Don Fowler PRJNCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCE TON. NEW JERSEY Copyright CJ1 997 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Ulm,,y of Congru, Cataloging-in-P,,l,lication Data Classical closure : reading the end in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Deborah H. Roberts, Francis M. Dunn, and Don Fowler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-04452-X (alk. paper) I. Classical literature-History and criticism-Theory, etc. 2. Narration {Rhetoric) 3. Greece-Civilization. 4. Rome Civilization. 5. Closure {Rhetoric) 6. Rhetoric, Ancient. I. Roberts, Deborah H. II. Dunn, Francis M. Ill. Fowler, Don, 1955- PA3009.C53 1997 880' .09-dc21 96-44439 CIP This book has been composed in Bembo Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Printed in the United States of America by Princeton Academic Press 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 For Sophia, Andrew, Alexander, and Hannah The common end of all na"ative, nay of all, Poems is to convert a series into a 14'hole:t o make these events, which in realo r imaginedH istory move on in a strait line, assume to our Understandings a drcular motion-the snake with it's Tail in it's Mouth. -Coleridge, CollectedL etters __________ Contents _________ _ Preface X1 Notes on the Contributors X1ll Abbreviatiom xv Chapter 1. Second Thoughts on Closure 3 D011F owler Chapter 2. Equal Honor and Future Glory: The Plan of Zeus in the fliad 23 Sheila Murnaghan Chapter 3. Odes and Ends: Closure in Greek Lyric 43 Ian Ruthe,ford Chapter 4. Wanton Kings, Pickled Heroes, and Gnomic Founding Fathers: Strategies of Meaning at the End of Herodotus's Histories 62 Carolyn Dewald Chapter 5. Ends and Means in Euripides' Heracles · 83 FrancisM . Dunn Chapter 6. Lucretian Conclusions 112 Peta Fowler Chapter 7. Closure in Latin Epic 139 Philip Hardie Chapter 8. Final Exit: Propertius 4.11 163 WR.Johnson Chapter 9. Endgames: Ovid's Metamorphoses1 5 and Fasti 6 181 AlessandroB archiesi Chapter 10. How Novels End: Some Patterns of Closure in Ancient Narrative 209 Massimo Fusillo X CONTENTS Chapter 11. Is Death the End? Closure in Plutarch 's lives 228 ChristopherP elling Chapter 12. Afterword: Ending and Aftermath, Ancient and Modern 251 DeborahH . Roberts Bibliography 27 5 Index 303
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