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1 online resource (433 pages) |
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Cover; Classical Literature : An Introduction; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Editors' introduction; Chapter 1 : Introductions; a. Greek dialects; b. Literacy; c. Metre, music, genre; d. The Olympic and other games; e. Patrons and authors; f. Religion and mythology; g. Rhetoric and education; h. The sexes and sexuality; i. Slavery; j. The symposium; k. Texts and fragments; l. War; Chapter 2 : Homer; a. The Homeric poems; b. Storytelling; c. Gods and mortals; d. Homeric values; Chapter 3 : From Homer to tragedy; a. Archaic Greece: the rise of the polis; b. Early Greek poetry: Hesiod |
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C. Early Greek poetry: elegy, iambus and lyricInterlude: greek history in the classical period; a. Up to the end of the Peloponnesian War; b. From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander; Chapter 4 : The drama of classical Athens; a. The Athenian democracy and the dramatic festivals; b. Tragedy; c. Aristophanic comedy; d. Middle and new comedy; Chapter 5 : Historical writing in the classical era; a. Herodotus; b. Thucydides; c. Xenophon; d. Later Greek historiography; Chapter 6 : Rhetorical and philosophical writing; a. Law courts, rhetoric, the sophists in classical Athens |
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B. Classical oratoryc. Early Greek philosophy; d. Plato and Aristotle; Chapter 7 : Alexandria and beyond; a. Alexandria, Greece and Rome; b. Hellenistic literature; Chapter 8 : The early republic; a. The early republic: an historical introduction; b. Early Latin poetry; c. Roman comic drama; Chapter 9 : The late republic; a. The late republic: an historical introduction; b. Cicero; c. Caesar; d. Sallust; e. Lucretius: the poem and the world; f. Catullus: the poetry of pleasure and the pleasure of poetry; g. Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics; h. Horace: the early poetry |
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Chapter 10 : The Augustan agea. The Augustan age: an historical introduction; b. Livy; c. Virgil: the Aeneid; d. Horace: the later poetry; e. Love elegy; f. Ovid; Chapter 11 : The early empire; a. The early empire: an historical introduction; b. Seneca; c. Persius, Martial and Juvenal; d. Lucan, Statius and others; e. Tacitus; f. Pliny the Younger; g. Suetonius; Chapter 12 : Greece and Rome come together: later literature; a. Later antiquity: an historical introduction; b. Later literature: a brief introduction; c. The Latin novel: Petronius and Apuleius; d. The Greek novel |
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E. The revival of Greek prose literaturef. Latin prose literature of the later empire; g. Later Greek and Latin poetry; h. Classicism and Christianity: prose and verse; i. Reception: a few words; Glossary; Maps; Chronology; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides an overview of the essential aspects of Greek and Latin literature. In conjunction with contextualising introductions the material is presented chronologically, by genre and where appropriate by author. The book ranges from Homer to the Roman Empire and includes a chronology of ancient literature, maps, lists of Greek and Roman authors and suggestions for further reading. The collection will be essential for students and others who want a structured and informative introduction to the literature of the classical world |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hyde, Roy
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| ISBN |
9780203818503 |
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0203818504 |
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