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Title The world of Ion of Chios / edited by Victoria Jennings, Andrea Katsaros
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages)
Series Mnemosyne ; volume 288
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 288.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Citation; About the Contributors; Chapter One Introduction (Victoria Jennings and Andrea Katsaros); PART ONE SURVIVAL; Chapter Two The Hocus of a Hedgehog: Ion's Versatility (John Henderson); Chapter Three Shot from the Canon: Sources, Selections, Survivals (Guy Olding); Chapter Four The Poet and the Place: A Modern Chian Perspective on Ion of Chios and his Home Island (Nikos K. Haviaras); PART TWO ION SUNGRAPHEOS; Chapter Five Ion's Epidemiai and Plutarch's Ion (Christopher Pelling); Chapter Six Ion of Chios and Politics (Anne Geddes)
Summary Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios, the prolific and innovative fifth century BC writer on classical Greek mythology, history and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-381) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Ion, of Chios.
SUBJECT Ion, of Chios fast
Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature
Bellettrie.
Grieks.
Receptie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Jennings, Victoria, 1970- editor.
Katsaros, Andrea, editor.
LC no. 2007298927
ISBN 9789047421184
9047421183
1281936014
9781281936011
9786611936013
6611936017