| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : map |
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1. The Language -- 2. Winged Words -- 3. The Heroic World -- 4. Literature of the Archaic Period -- 5. Athens in the Fifth Century -- 6. Tragedy -- 7. Comedy -- 8. The Beginnings of Prose -- 9. Alexandria: The New Athens -- Further Reading -- Appendix: Important Dates in History and Literature -- Index |
| Summary |
Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political-and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional-quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature |
| Analysis |
Greek literature, to ca 500 - Critical studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Greece
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Greek literature
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Literature and society
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Littérature grecque -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature et société -- Grèce.
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501745461 |
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1501745468 |
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