Ancient Greek Literature

by: Dover, K.J.

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 K.J. Dover and three other classical scholars have collaborated in writing this new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes to life which are unfamiliar to us, and to the elements which appeal most powerfully to succeeding generations. Although it is recognized that this appeal lies above all in the most creative and inventive period (700-300 B.C.), an account is given of the eight hundred years which followed, which saw the results of earlier inspirations. Poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, science, philosophy and oratory are all examined through the available literature

Contents

1 Introduction

K.J.Dover

2 Homeric and Hesiodic poetry

M.L. West

3 Other early poetry

M.L.West

4 Tragedy

K.J.Dover

5 Comedy

K.J.Dover

6 The classical historians

K.J.Dover

7 Classical science and philosophy

K.J.Dover

8 Classical oratory

K.J.Dover

9 Greek literature 300-50 B.C.

Jasper Griffin

10 Greek literature after 50 B.C.

E.L.Bowie

Chronological table

Further reading

Index

Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Einführung
Geschichte
Greek literature
Greek literature History and criticism
Griechisch
Grieks
Letterkunde
Literatur
Littérature grecque Histoire et critique

Series:
OPUS

186 pages : maps ; 21 cm

Ancient Greek Literature

by: Dover, K.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780192891242 / 978-0-19-289124-2
• ISBN-03: 0192891243 / 0-19-289124-3
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990

Price: 14,38 EURO

1 copy in stock