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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Abbreviations -- Signs and Symbols -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Introduction / Passa, Enzo / Tribulato, Olga -- Bibliography of Albio Cesare Cassio -- Unconventional Features in Homer: The Case of ἑέ and ἑοῖ / Kaczko, Sara -- σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων: Origin and Evolution of a Homeric Formula / Willi, Andreas -- Active versus Middle Perfect in Homeric Greek: Synchrony and Diachrony / Beek, Lucien van / Migliori, Laura -- Empedocles in the West, Panyassis in the East: Doric and Hexameter Poetry in the Classical Age / Passa, Enzo -- Of Land, Ancestral Property and Prophecy in Corinna PMG 654 col. iii ll. 37–39 / Prauscello, Lucia -- Epicharmus and Choral Lyric Poetry: A Reappraisal of Old and New Evidence / Favi, Federico -- Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm / Vatri, Alessandro -- Gk. ταπεινός 'Low(-lying)' and Its IE Heritage: Gk. PN Τέμπυρα, Hitt. dampu- 'Blunt', Old Russ. tupъ 'Blunt, Stupid' / Serangeli, Matilde -- Prose and Poetry of Pain: A History of the Term ἄλγος / Cerroni, Enrico -- Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas / Tribulato, Olga -- List of Contributors -- Index of Notable Words -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages

"In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and with British political influence over Greece soon to be ceded to the United States, there was nonetheless a degree of cultural interaction between Greek and British literati. Sponsored or assisted by the British Council, this interaction was notable for its diversity and quality alike. Indeed, the British Council in Greece made a more significant contribution to local culture in that period than at any other time, and perhaps in any other country. Many of the participants among them Patrick Leigh Fermor, Steven Runciman, and Louis MacNeice are well known, while others deserve to be better known than they are today. But what has been less fully discussed, and what the volume sets out to do, is to explore the two-way relations between Greek and British literary production in which the British Council played a particularly important role until the outbreak of armed conflict in Cyprus in 1955, which rendered further contacts of this kind difficult. Close attention is paid to the variety of ways - marked by personal affinities and allegiances, but also by political tensions - in which the British Council functioned as an agent of interaction in a climate where a complex blend of traditional Anglophilia or Phihellenism found itself encountering a new post-war and Cold War environment. What is distinctive about the volume, beyond the inclusion of much recent archival research, is its attention to the British Council as part of the story of Greek letters, and not just as a place in which various British men and women of letters worked. The British Council found itself, sometimes more through improvisation and personal affinities, rather than through careful planning, at the heart of some key developments, notably in terms of important periodical publications which had a lasting influence on Greek letters. Though in the cultural forum that influence was arguably to be less pervasive than that of France, with its more ambitious cultural outreach, or than that of the USA in later decades, the role of the British Council in Greece in this crucial period of Greek (and indeed European) post-war history continues to make a rich case study in cultural politics. This volume thus fills a gap in the rich bibliography on Anglo-Greek relations and contributes to a wider scholarly and public discussion about cultural politics."--Provided by publisher.