Book Description
This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1985-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521210423
This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359818
The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production was closely related to developments in contemporary society. At the time when the city states were acquiring their distinctive institutions epic found the greatest of all its exponents in Homer, and lyric poetry for both solo and choral performance became a genre which attracted poets of the first rank, writers of the quality of Sappho, Alcaeus and Pindar, whose influence on later literature was to be profound. This volume covers the epic tradition, the didactic poems of Hesiod and his imitators, and the wide-ranging work of the iambic, elegiac and lyric poets of what is loosely called the archaic age. The contributors make use of recent papyrus finds (particularly in the case of Archilochus and Stesichorus) to fill out the picture of a cosmopolitan and highly sophisticated literary culture which had not yet found its intellectual centre in Athens.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359849
The emphasis of this volume is on Greek literature produced in the period between the foundation of Alexandria late in the fourth century B.C. and the end of the 'high empire' in the third century A.D. Here we see a shift away from the city states of the Greek mainland to the new centres of culture and power, first Alexandria under the Ptolemies and then imperial Rome, Greek literature, being traditionally cosmopolitan, adapted to these changes with remarkable success, and through the efficiency of the Hellenistic educational system Greek literary culture became the essential mark of an educated person in the Graeco-Roman world.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359818
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359832
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359825
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359825
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359825
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
Author : Wendell Vernon Clausen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Classical drama
ISBN : 9780521273718