Author: James Adam
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : el
Pages : 88

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Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author:
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Category : Greek literature
Languages : el
Pages : 132

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1306

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Author: B.H. Blackwell Ltd
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1944

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Author: Eric A. HAVELOCK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction-Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.

Author: Herbert Ernest Cushman
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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