Author: Gilbert Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Albin Lesky
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872203501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 952

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"First published as Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur by Francke Verlag, Bern"--T.p. verso.

Author: Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226143120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.

Author: Franco Montanari
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110419931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book offers the most comprehensive and updated history of Ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary phenomena and genres makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity, particularly well-suited for use in the classroom.

Author: Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780745627915
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Whitmarsh offers new readings of some of the best-known and most influential authors of Greek antiquity, including Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristophanes and Plato, as well as introducing many lesser-known figures. Unlike conventional narrative histories, this volume focuses on the profound effects of literature within Greek society. Whitmarsh shows that literature, distributed via a range of social institutions, such as festivals, theatres, symposia and book production, played an important role in the legitimization – and challenging – of ideologies of gender, class and cultural identity. The volume also addresses the legacy of Greek literature: how the Victorian cult of Hellenism and its successors have structured the reception of ancient texts, and how and why the modern West has adopted the Greeks as its ancestors. This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.

Author: Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047422937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.

Author: Ewen Bowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009213407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.

Author: Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521833078
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Author: Frederic Will
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527566613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender relations; innovations; trade; and science. Overall, the book will serve as both reference guide and launchpad for ongoing attention to our Hellenic heritage.

Author: Kate Gilhuly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.