Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: beginning at Colonus
- How Greek poems begin
- The Muse corrects: the opening of the Odyssey
- Sappho 16, Gorgias' Helen, and the preface to Herodotus' Histories
- Tragic beginnings: narration, voice, and authority in the prologues of Greek drama
- Plato's first words
- Plautine negotiations: the Poenulus prologue unpacked
- Proems in the middle
- Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes: poet, patron, and audience
- An aristocracy of virtue: Seneca on the beginnings of wisdom
- Beginnings in Plutarch's Lives
- “Initium mihi operis Servius Galba iterum T. Vinius consules …”
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: beginning at Colonus
- How Greek poems begin
- The Muse corrects: the opening of the Odyssey
- Sappho 16, Gorgias' Helen, and the preface to Herodotus' Histories
- Tragic beginnings: narration, voice, and authority in the prologues of Greek drama
- Plato's first words
- Plautine negotiations: the Poenulus prologue unpacked
- Proems in the middle
- Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes: poet, patron, and audience
- An aristocracy of virtue: Seneca on the beginnings of wisdom
- Beginnings in Plutarch's Lives
- “Initium mihi operis Servius Galba iterum T. Vinius consules …”
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- Beginnings in Classical Literature , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992