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

by: Easterling, P.E. Knox, B.M.W.

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Category: Greek Philology
Code: 7737
ISBN-13: 9780521359849 / 978-0-521-35984-9
ISBN-10: 0521359848 / 0-521-35984-8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 278
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 1989, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

The Hellenistic period and the empire
Authors:P. E. Easterling, Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox

Summary: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.

Series:
Cambridge history of classical literature, v. 1, pt. 4

xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm


Contents:
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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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature : Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4, The Hellenistic Period and the Empire

by: Easterling, P.E. Knox, B.M.W.

  • ISBN-13: 9780521359849 / 978-0-521-35984-9
  • ISBN-03: 0521359848 / 0-521-35984-8
  • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

Price: 38,40 EURO

1 copy in stock