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From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognised system of terminology in literary theory. The first part of the book draws on developments in narratology and cognitive science to propose a way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each.

Ancient rhetoric --- Antieke retoriek --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Retoriek [Antieke ] --- Retoriek van de Oudheid --- Rhetoric [Ancient ] --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Rhétorique de l'Antiquité --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- 82-3 --- 875-3 --- Classical literature --- -Classical literature --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Griekse literatuur: proza --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Stories, plots, etc --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Theory, etc. --- Stories, plots, etc. --- History --- 875-3 Griekse literatuur: proza --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Classical literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Theory, etc --- History and criticism&delete& --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative