Short History Of Greek Literature

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226143120
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.

Author : Suzanne Said
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134806574
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature written by Suzanne Said and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature - from Christian authors - over twelve centuries, from Homer's epics to the rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period up to Justinian. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the extraordinary creativity of the archaic and classical age, when the major literary genres - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory and philosophy - were invented and flourished. The second part covers the Hellenistic period, and the third covers the High Empire and Late Antiquity. At that tine the masters of the previous age were elevated to the rank of 'classics'. The works of the imperial period are replete with literary allusions, yet full of references to contemporary reality.

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Gilbert Murray and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilmer Cave France Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature written by Wilmer Cave France Wright and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192893031
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature in the Greek World written by Oliver Taplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from theearliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule.The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation,and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?

Author : Martin Hose
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119088615
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Literature written by Martin Hose and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways

Author : Wilmer Cave France Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian written by Wilmer Cave France Wright and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107543
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths written by Stephen P. Kershaw and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along with some less familiar characters and motifs. In addition to the tales, the book explains key issues arising from the narratives, and discusses the myths and their wider relevance. This long-overdue book crystallises three key areas of interest: the nature of the tales; the stories themselves; and how they have and might be interpreted. For the first time, it brings together aspects of Greek mythology only usually available in disparate forms - namely children's books and academic works. There will be much here that is interesting, surprising, and strange as well as familiar. Experts and non-experts, adults, students and schoolchildren alike will gain entertainment and insight from this fascinating and important volume.

Author : Wilmer Cave Wright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330320945
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature From Homer to Julian written by Wilmer Cave Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of Greek Literature From Homer to Julian The writer of a survey of Greek literature so brief as this feels throughout the task the lack of elbow-room, and must always be acutely conscious of omissions. I have kept constantly in mind the reader who, though little or not at all acquainted with the classics, realizes that he cannot appreciate any other literature, least of all his own, unless he can relate its masterpieces to the types set, once for all, by the Greeks. He may safely ignore all but the best. But this book is intended, no less, for the student of Greek who, in his second or third year at college, will profit immensely by a rapid survey of the whole field of Greek literature. For him every part of that whole becomes significant, and for his sake the tribe of Euphorion or the declaimers must often usurp space that, if one followed the mere sense of proportion, is due to the creative writers. Of the prose writers, Julian's is the latest name formally treated, but, in order to include Musaeus and the later epic, I have carried down the sketch of Graeco-Roman poetry to the sixth century. In the matter of the spelling of names I have not striven for a consistency that scholars continue to abhor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Moses Hadas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231514866
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Greek Literature written by Moses Hadas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1950-03-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Greek Literature