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Author | : Martin Hose |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444339427 |
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
Author | : Albin Lesky |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780872203501 |
"First published as Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur by Francke Verlag, Bern"--T.p. verso.
Author | : Jacqueline de Romilly |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226143120 |
Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.
Author | : Oliver Taplin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : 9780192100207 |
The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Author | : Michael Grant |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Owen Hodkinson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004253033 |
Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.
Author | : Suzanne Said |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134806574 |
A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature - from Christian authors - over twelve centuries, from Homer's epics to the rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period up to Justinian. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the extraordinary creativity of the archaic and classical age, when the major literary genres - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory and philosophy - were invented and flourished. The second part covers the Hellenistic period, and the third covers the High Empire and Late Antiquity. At that tine the masters of the previous age were elevated to the rank of 'classics'. The works of the imperial period are replete with literary allusions, yet full of references to contemporary reality.
Author | : Oliver Taplin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Authors and readers |
ISBN | : 9780192893031 |
'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from theearliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule.The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation,and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?
Author | : Dr Scott Fitzgerald Johnson |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409479420 |
Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other eastern texts examined in this volume. The contributions here presented make new inroads into a rich literature notable above all for its flexibility and unparalleled creativity in combining multiple languages and literary traditions. The authors and texts discussed include Philostratus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Nonnos of Panopolis, the important St Polyeuktos epigram, and numerous others. The volume makes use of a variety of interdisciplinary approaches in an attempt to provoke discussion on change (Dynamism), literary education (Didacticism), and reception studies (Classicism). The result is a study which highlights the erudition and literary sophistication characteristic of the period and brings questions of contextualization, linguistic association, and artistic imagination to bear on little-known or undervalued texts, without neglecting important evidence from material culture and social practices. With contributions by both established scholars and young innovators in the field of late antique studies, there is no work of comparable authority or scope currently available. This volume will stimulate further interest in a range of untapped texts from Late Antiquity.
Author | : Froma I. Zeitlin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226979229 |
Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.