Landmarks in Classical Literature / / Philip Gaskell.
Landmarks in Classical Literature is the final volume in a set of three books about the major authors of Western literature and their works from Classical times until the early twentieth century. In this volume, Philip Gaskell introduces the work of the greatest writers of Classical Greece and Rome...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I The Homeric age
- 1 The spread of civilisation: the past in the present - from neolithic tribalism to the first cities - the Minoans
- 2 The Greeks: the Mycenaeans- Dark-Age Greece - the Greek language - the Greek alphabet- Bronze-Age society and culture - Mycenaean religion
- 3 Homer and epic poetry: the background - the Iliad - the Odyssey - Hesiod
- II Greece in the fifth century BC
- 4 From Archaic to early-Classical Greece: Athens - Sparta - the Persian Wars - women, resident foreigners, and slaves - colonisation
- 5 Religion, the arts, education, and books: religious beliefs and practices - architecture - painting - sculpture - music - education, literacy, and books
- 6 Lyric poetry: Pindar and his predecessors: the lyric - Sappho and Anacreon - Pindar
- 7 Sophocles and Athenian drama: tragedy - the three tragedians - Aeschylus - Sophocles - Euripides - Aristophanes and comedy
- 8 Herodotus and Greek history: Greek historians -Herodotus and the Persian Wars- Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War - Xenophon and the Persian Expedition
- 9 Plato and philosophy: the pre-Socratics - Socrates - Plato - Aristotle
- Interchapter: the Hellenistic age
- Alexander's empire and its successors - language and society - the visual arts - literature - history - philosophy and science - scholarship and libraries
- III Late-Republican and early-Imperial Rome
- 10 The expansion of Rome: from city-state to superstate - the Latin language - Roman names
- 11 Republic and Empire: conquest abroad, strife at home - politics and society - religion
- 12 Maintaining the state: economics and technology - the Roman army
- 13 The arts: painting, sculpture, and architecture -drama: Plautus, Terence, Seneca -education, books, and libraries
- 14 Cicero: rhetoric and philosophy - the legacy of Greece: rhetoric, philosophy - Cicero - Seneca
- 15 Virgil: from pastoral to epic - Theocritus and pastoral poetry - Virgil - the Eclogues - the Georgics- the Aeneid- Virgil's reputation and influence
- 16 Horace: epigram, lyric, and satire- Catullus -Horace- Juvenal
- 17 Ovid: love poetry and the novel - Ovid - the novel - Longus - Petronius - Apuleius
- 18 Tacitus and Roman history: Roman historians - Caesar and the Gallic War - Sallust - Livy - Tacitus- Plutarch- Suetonius
- Afterword
- Appendix: Classical studies
- The survival of ancient texts - the transmission of texts - textual scholarship- history and archaeology
- Reference bibliography
- Index and guide to pronunciation