Greek Literature

Homer | Hesiod | Theognis of Megara | Heraclitus | Pindar | Sophocles | Euripides | Xenephon | Plato | Isocrates |  Demosthenes | Longinus | Demetrius | Plutarch | 

Homer

Iliad

1 - 24

Whitman Homer 97, cited in Welch thesis 57; Welch UF VI:423 n. 46; Bowra in Wace & Stubbings, eds., Companion to Homer 43; cf. Natopoulos TAPA 82:99-100.

1 - 3∥22 - 24

Bowra Homer 96,106; Bowra Tradition and Design 15, cited in Radday BM 20-21:72 n. 30; Radday LB 9-10:21; 19:13; cf. Bowra in Wace and Stubbings, ed., Companion to Homer 43.

2,758-769

Bowra Homer 58-59; abba; cf. Aristarchus OxyP 1086 Scholia T, cited in Welch thesis 54.

3

Welch; ABBA; Achaeans, Trojans reversed in troop catalogue; cf. Welch thesis 46,50

3,179

Welch thesis 41; Welch UF VI:423.

9 - 16

Whitman Homer chart, cited in Welch thesis 57-58.

9,437-445

A. Parry TAPA 87:4, cited in Welch thesis 43-47; cf. Gaisser HSCP 73.

9,443

Welch thesis 41-43.

15,55-322

Welch thesis 50; anadiploid chain of inversions.

16,224

Welch thesis 42-43; Welch UF VI:423 n. 22.

16,857

Welch thesis 42.

19,139ff

Welch thesis 49-50; abba.

24,730

Welch thesis 42; Welch UF VI:423 n. 22; cf. Myres JHS 52:264-296.

 

Odyssey

1 - 24

Bowra Homer 118-119; ABA; Bowra in Wace & Stubbings, eds., Companion to Homer 43-44; Aristarchus Scholia A on Od 56, cited in Welch thesis 52; cf. Myres ABSA 45, and Bertman TAPA 97:15-27.

1,1-493

Myres JHS 72:1-19; ABCCBA.

3,310

Welch thesis 42; Welch UF VI:423 n. 22

7 - 22

Reece Oral Tradition 10/1:207-229, cited in Isar EJOP 2/7 at www.ejop.org

7,237 - 9,19

Bowra Homer 59; ABCCBA.

10,235

Welch thesis 42; Welch UF VI:423 n. 22.

11,170-203

Aristarchus OxyP 1086, cited in Bassett HSCP 31:46-47, and in Welch thesis 51-52; Welch CIA 253-254; Welch in Sorenson & Thorne, eds.,  Rediscovering 114-115; abcdefggfedcba; Bowra Homer 59.

11,210-222

R. Smith; abba.

14,115ff

Bassett HSCP 31:41, cited in Welch thesis 49; abba.

15,509ff

Bassett HSCP 31:41, cited in Welch thesis 49.

17 - 23

Myres JHS 72:1-19; ABCDEFGFEDCBA; cf. Bertman GRBS 9:115-123.

24,106

Bassett HSCP 31:41, cited in Welch thesis 49; abba.

24,340

Welch thesis 42; Welch UF VI:423 n. 22.

Hesiod

Works and Days

Jaeger, Paideia, I:194,197, n. 16; two main sections enclosed by prologue & epilogue; ABBA.

Theognis of Megara (6th cent. B.C.)

Sayings to Cyrnus

1-18∥237-254

Jaeger, Paideia, I:194,197, n. 16; prologue and epilogue enclosing two main sections; ABBA.

Heraclitus

frag. 22

Welch thesis 87-88.

frag. 66

Welch thesis 88.

frag. 98

Welch thesis 88

 

Pindar

Norwood Pindar

Sophocles

Electra

Segal TAPA 97:479-480.

Herodotus

Myres ABSA 45:252ff.; Herodotus: Father of History, on the ABCBA (pedimental) mode of composition.

Histories 8,88.3

McCoy CTS Journal 9/2:22.

Euripides

Orestes

Aristarchus, Scholia Euripides Orestes 702 (prothusteron).

Phoenissae

Aristarchus, Scholia Euripides Phoenissae 887 (husterologia).

Medea

Buttrey AJP 79:1-17.

Xenephon

Anabasis

3,4.2

Smyth Greek Grammar 656-657, cited in Welch thesis 86-87.

Plato

Apologia

19 CD

Welch thesis 89.

25 D

Smyth Greek Grammar, rev. 677; Welch thesis 89.

34 CD

Welch thesis 89.

 

Phaedo

80 A

Smyth Greek Grammar, rev. 677; Welch thesis 89.

 

Republic

494 E

Smyth Greek Grammar, rev. 677; Welch thesis 89.

Isocrates

Panegyricus 4.67–68

Lausberg Handbuch 893.

Demosthenes

19,227

Smyth Greek Grammar, rev. 677

Longinus

On the Sublime

33,1

Talbert CBQ 32:362.

Demetrius

On Style

5,250

Talbert CBQ 32:362.

Plutarch

Marius

Cf. Carney JHS 80:24-31.