History of Ancient Greek Literature : : Volume 1: The Archaic and Classical Ages. Volume 2: The Hellenistic Age and the Roman Imperial Period / / Franco Montanari.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Montanari, Franco,
• MitwirkendeR: Barritt Costa, Rachel,; Montana, Fausto,; Mulholland, Orla,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 2 Bände, 1 ISBN
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Reference
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXXVII, 1174 p.)

This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Ancient Greek Literature and its Transmission -- The Archaic Age -- I The Period -- II Archaic Greek Epic -- III Lyric Poetry -- IV Philosophy -- V Historiography -- VI Fable -- The Classical Age -- I The Period -- II From the Philosophy of Being to Pluralism -- III Very Early Drama and Aeschylus -- IV Philosophy in the Polis -- V Attic Drama in the Age of Radical Democracy -- VI Drama in the Fourth Century B.C. -- VII Epic and Lyric Poetry between the Fifth and the Fourth Century B.C. -- VIII Medicine and Hippocrates -- IX Fifth-Century-B.C. Historiography -- X Rhetoric and Oratory in the Fifth Century B.C. -- XI Historiography after Thucydides -- XII Fourth-Century-B.C. Oratory -- XIII Philosophy in the Fourth Century B.C. -- The Hellenistic Age -- I The Period -- II Theatre -- III Philology, Grammar, Erudition -- IV Poetry in the Hellenistic Age -- V The Hellenistic Philosophies -- VI The Sciences -- VII Oratory and Rhetoric -- VIII Historiography -- IX Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature -- The Roman Imperial Period -- I The Period -- II Rhetoric and Literary Criticism -- III Historiography -- IV Geographical and Periegetic Literature -- V Plutarch of Chaeronea -- VI Jewish and Christian Literature -- VII Philosophical and Scientific Literature -- VIII The Second Sophistic and Lucian -- IX Narrative Literature -- X Grammar, Scholarship, Compilation -- XI Oratory and Rhetoric in Late Antiquity -- XII Poetry in the Imperial Period -- XIII Christian Literature in Greek -- Bibliography of Translations -- Index of Authors