Prolepsis in Ancient Greek Narrative

Saskia Schomber is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing her PhD dissertation (defended in 2024) on the narrative aesthetics of late Greek epic for publication. Her research interests further include postclassical narratology and critical approaches to Classics.Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophon’s Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis). Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue

• PrefaceNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Narrating AheadSaskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue2 Additive Anachronies in HomerAlexander C. Loney3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotus’ HistoriesIrene J.F. de Jong4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophon’s Narrative of Mantinea (Hell. 7.5): The Fog of WarLuuk Huitink5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophocles’ Oedipus TyrannusEvert van Emde Boas6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2 Maccabees: That Was Now, This Is ThenR.Gillian Glass7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodian’s History of the Empire after Marcus: The Paradox of AnticipationMario Baumann8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and ClosureBenedek Kruchió9 The Inset Stories of Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual ProlepsesAldo Tagliabue10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorus’ AethiopicaJonas Grethlein11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen: Ghost Stories and Virtual NarrativesSaskia SchomberIndex