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Ancient Greek Literature and Society / Charles R. Beye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Second Edition RevisedDescription: 1 online resource (376 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745461
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 880/.9 19
LOC classification:
  • PA3052 .B4 1987
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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 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.

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