Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek - Literature, Part 4, the Hellenistic Period and the Empir

Klappentext The emphasis of this volume is on Greek literature produced in the period between the foundation of Alexandria late in the fourth century B.C. and the end of the 'high empire' in the third century A.D. Here we see a shift away from the city states of the Greek mainland to the new centres of culture and power! first Alexandria under the Ptolemies and then imperial Rome! Greek literature! being traditionally cosmopolitan! adapted to these changes with remarkable success! and through the efficiency of the Hellenistic educational system Greek literary culture became the essential mark of an educated person in the Graeco-Roman world. Zusammenfassung This volume in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature studies the revolutionary movement represented by the more creative of the Hellenistic poets! and finally the very rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period! with rhetoric and the novel contributing a distinctive flavour to the culture of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Abbreviations; Editorial note; Part I. Hellenistic Poetry: 1. Introduction; 2. Philetas and others; 3. Callimachus; 4. Theocritus; 5. Apollonius Rhodius; 6. Minor figures; Part II. The Literature of the Empire: 7. The early Empire; 8. Poetry; 9. Philostratus and the second sophistic; 10. Science and superstition; 11. Between philosophy and rhetoric; 12. The Greek novel; 13. The fable; 14. Historical writing of the high empire; Part III. Book and Readers in the Greek world: 15. From the beginnings to Alexandria; 16. The Hellenistic and imperial periods; Appendixes; Index.

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• Authors: P. E. Easterling, P. E. (University of Cambridge) Knox Easterling, P. E. Knox Easterling
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor), B. M. W. Knox (Editor), Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.1989
• EAN: 9780521359849
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35984-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge History of Classical
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies