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1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) |
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""BOOK COVER""; ""HALF-TITLE""; ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Part 1 HOMER AND THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (EIGHTH TO FIFTH CENTURIES BC) ""; ""1 HOMER AND THE EPIC AGE (EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES B C)""; ""Homeric poetry""; ""Homer""; ""Oral poetry""; ""Homer�s world""; ""The Iliad""; ""The Odyssey""; ""The epic after Homer""; ""The Homeric Hymns""; ""The poetry of Hesiod""; ""Hesiod""; ""The Theogony""; ""Works and Days""; ""The Shield""; ""2 THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY FIFTH CENTURY B C)""; ""Early lyric poetry""; ""Iambic poetry"" |
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""Elegiac poetry""""Monody: Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon""; ""The choral lyric""; ""Epinician odes""; ""The birth of philosophy: the Presocratics""; ""From Parmenides to Democritus""; ""The �atomists�""; ""Part 2 THE CLASSICAL AGE AND THE FLOWERING OF ATHENS (FIFTH TO FOURTH CENTURIES BC)""; ""INTRODUCTION:""; ""3 THEATRE""; ""Tragedy""; ""Comedy""; ""4 HISTORY""; ""History before Herodotus""; ""Herodotus, �father of history�""; ""Thucydides and political history""; ""History in the fourth century""; ""5 PHILOSOPHY""; ""Socrates (469�399)""; ""Plato (428�347)"" |
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""Aristotle (384�322)""""The Poetics""; ""6 RHETORIC""; ""Lysias and judicial oratory""; ""Isocrates and Epideictic oratory""; ""Demosthenes and political oratory""; ""Other fourth-century orators""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Part 3 THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""7 POETRY""; ""Menander and New Comedy""; ""Hellenistic poetry""; ""8 PROSE""; ""Philosophy""; ""Historians and geographers""; ""Part 4 THE ROMAN EMPIRE""; ""9 THE EMPIRE FROM AUGUSTUS TO CONSTANTINE ""; ""Classicism""; ""Plutarch and Lucian""; ""Rhetoric""; ""The novel""; ""History"" |
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Pagan philosophy: between moral theory and exegesisClassical culture and Christianity: the birth of Greek Christian literature -- 10 LATE ANTIQUITY -- The poetry of late antiquity: between plagiarism and transfiguration -- History and biography: rupture and confrontation -- Rhetoric, mirror of the tensions in Hellenism -- Neoplatonism: philosophy as theology -- Patristics: the conversion of Hellenism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- HISTORY OF LITERATURE -- WORKS OF REFERENCE -- PART 1: HOMER AND THE ARCHAIC PERIOD -- General -- Homeric Poetry -- Hesiod |
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Lyric PoetryIambic and Elegiac Poetry -- Monody -- Choral Lyric -- Presocratic Philosophy -- PART 2: THE CLASSICAL AGE AND THE FLOWERING OF ATHENS -- Introduction -- The Sophists -- Hippocratic Medicine -- Theatre -- Generalia -- Tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Aristophanes -- History -- General -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Local Histories -- Theopompus -- Ephorus -- Xenophon -- Philosophy -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Rhetoric -- General -- Antiphon -- Lysias -- Isocrates -- Demosthenes |
| Summary |
A concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature over 12 centuries is provided in this volume. It ranges from Homer's epics to authors from the imperial period and up to Justinian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) 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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| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Greek literature
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Letterkunde.
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Grieks.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Trédé, Monique, author
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Saïd, Suzanne.
Littérature grecque d'Homère a Aristote.
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Saïd, Suzanne.
Littérature grecque d'Alexandre a Justinien.
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| ISBN |
0203431790 |
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9780203431795 |
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9786610061907 |
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6610061904 |
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9781134806584 |
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1134806582 |
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9781134806539 |
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1134806531 |
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9781134806577 |
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1134806574 |
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