Ancient Greek Literature

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : EAN:4066338115393

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The History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray Pdf

The History of Ancient Greek Literature is an exceptional and comprehensive textbook of Europe's oldest civilization. The book covers the ancient Greek literature from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. It begins with the earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the Mycenaean era. Homer's epics as well as the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. All above mentioned periods are presented in this book with a special emphasise on every particularly literary genre of ancient Greek literature - epic poetry, lyric poetry, drama, historiography and philosophy. Contents Homer Lesser Homeric Poems; Hesiod; Orpheus The Descendants of Homer, Hesiod, and Orpheus The Song The Beginnings of Prose Herodotus Philosophic and Political Literature to the Death of Socrates Thucydides The Drama Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Comedy Plato Xenophon The 'Orators' Demosthenes and His Contemporaries The Later Literature, Alexandrian and Roman

Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Polity
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745627927

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Ancient Greek Literature by Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Whitmarsh offers new readings of some of the best-known and most influential authors of Greek antiquity, including Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristophanes and Plato, as well as introducing many lesser-known figures. Unlike conventional narrative histories, this volume focuses on the profound effects of literature within Greek society. Whitmarsh shows that literature, distributed via a range of social institutions, such as festivals, theatres, symposia and book production, played an important role in the legitimization – and challenging – of ideologies of gender, class and cultural identity. The volume also addresses the legacy of Greek literature: how the Victorian cult of Hellenism and its successors have structured the reception of ancient texts, and how and why the modern West has adopted the Greeks as its ancestors. This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.

Author : Martin Hose,David Schenker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119088615

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A Companion to Greek Literature by Martin Hose,David Schenker Pdf

A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways

Author : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134451050

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Ancient Greek Literary Letters by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer Pdf

Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic -- chapter 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA -- chapter 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- chapter 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES.

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009213400

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Ewen Bowie Pdf

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226143125

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A Short History of Greek Literature by Jacqueline de Romilly Pdf

Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.

Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527555679

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script, Imagination and Philosophy by Frederic Will Pdf

This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender relations; innovations; trade; and science. Overall, the book will serve as both reference guide and launchpad for ongoing attention to our Hellenic heritage.

Author : Irene J.F. de Jong,René Nünlist
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047422938

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Time in Ancient Greek Literature by Irene J.F. de Jong,René Nünlist Pdf

This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.

Author : Franco Montanari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110426328

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History of Ancient Greek Literature by Franco Montanari Pdf

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, particularly well-suited for use in the classroom.

Author : Kenneth James Dover
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015004158765

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Ancient Greek Literature by Kenneth James Dover Pdf

Four experts have come together to write this exciting new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors of poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, science, philosophy, and oratory and quotes many passages from their work in translatin, to allow the reader to form his own impression of the quality of the authors discussed. The authors draw attention both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes toward life which are unfamiliar to us and which give it its powerful appeal to succeeding generations.

Author : Chariton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031446845

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The Loves of Chærcas and Callirrhoe. Written Originally in Greek, by Chariton of Aphrodisios. Now First Translated Into English ... by Chariton Pdf

Author : Suzanne Said,Monique Trede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134806577

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A Short History of Greek Literature by Suzanne Said,Monique Trede Pdf

A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature - from Christian authors - over twelve centuries, from Homer's epics to the rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period up to Justinian. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the extraordinary creativity of the archaic and classical age, when the major literary genres - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory and philosophy - were invented and flourished. The second part covers the Hellenistic period, and the third covers the High Empire and Late Antiquity. At that tine the masters of the previous age were elevated to the rank of 'classics'. The works of the imperial period are replete with literary allusions, yet full of references to contemporary reality.

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 0192893033

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Literature in the Greek World by Oliver Taplin Pdf

'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from theearliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule.The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation,and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?

Author : Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110569063

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Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature by Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts ‘gaze’, ‘vision’ and ‘visuality’ are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses.

Author : Kate Gilhuly,Nancy Worman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107042124

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Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Kate Gilhuly,Nancy Worman Pdf

This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.