Appendix 1: A Variant Ending to Thekla’s Apostolic Career The overall significance of the changed ending in the Life can be brought into greater relief by comparing a near-contemporary version of these events, which also attempts to wrest control away from the ATh, though in different ways. Read more
Appendix 2: The Reception of the Acts of Paul and Thekla in Late Antique Sermons (Pseudo-Chrysostom and Severus of Antioch) The close reading of the Life offered in Chapter One above is designed to illustrate the literary activity of one writer on one text. The Life is… Read more
Appendix 3: Early Byzantine Miracle Collections: A Select Catalogue The list below comprises a select (alphabetical) catalogue of miracle collections in Greek from early Byzantium, fifth to eighth centuries. [1] While I have included the Miracles of Thekla as part of this… Read more
References Accorinti, D., ed. 1996. Nonno di Panopoli—Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni, Canto XX: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Pisa. Achtemeier, P. 1970. “Towards the Isolation of Pre-Markan Miracle Catenae.” JBL 89:265–291. Adler, W. 1989. Time… Read more
Chapter 1. Peripheral and Nuclear Semantics In recent years a number of studies on Homeric versification have appeared which aim to show a way out of the deadlock at which the study of the Homeric formula ended in the ’60s and ’70s. [1]… Read more
Chapter 2. Formula, Context, and Synonymy Milman Parry’s 1928 dissertation, [1] insofar as it drew upon and continued the work of earlier scholars, provided a functional dimension to the findings of such earlier scholars as Düntzer, Ellendt, Witte, and Meister. Parry pointed… Read more
Chapter 3. How Oral is Oral Composition? In the two preceding chapters the main interest was the question of the formula, which we approached from a number of perspectives. The present chapter will start widening the horizons by asking the question that ought perhaps to be at… Read more
Chapter 4. Mimesis as Performance The reputation of the first chapter of Auerbach’s Mimesis among classicists has risen and fallen with the tides of fashion in Homeric studies. The notion of Homeric privileging of the part over the whole, argued for in the essay on Odysseus’s scar,… Read more
Chapter 5. The Poetics of Deixis Deixis is what speakers do to locate themselves in space and time, with respect to things, events, and each other. When speaking, it is impossible not to be deictic, not to “be in” the context of one’s discourse. Not being deictic… Read more
