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Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era.Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Gre...
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Beye, Charles R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ancient Greek Literature and Society / Charles R. Beye. Second Edition Revised Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1987 1 online resource (376 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Language -- 2. Winged Words -- 3. The Heroic World -- 4. Literature of the Archaic Period -- 5. Athens in the Fifth Century -- 6. Tragedy -- 7. Comedy -- 8. The Beginnings of Prose -- 9. Alexandria: The New Athens -- Further Reading -- Appendix: Important Dates in History and Literature -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era.Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political—and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional—quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Greek literature History and criticism. Literature and society Greece. Ancient History & Classical Studies. Literary Studies. HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745461 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745461 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745461/original |
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