TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beye,Charles R.
TI  - Ancient Greek Literature and Society
SN  - 9781501745461
AV  - PA3052 .B4 1987
U1  - 880/.9 19
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Greek literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Greece
KW  - Ancient History & Classical Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745461
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ER  -