A short history of Greek literature / Suzanne Said and Monique Trede ; translated by Trista Selous and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saïd, Suzanne.

Contributor:

Trédé, Monique.

Saïd, Suzanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Balkan literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""BOOK COVER""; ""HALF-TITLE""; ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Part 1 HOMER AND THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (EIGHTH TO FIFTH CENTURIES BC) ""; ""1 HOMER AND THE EPIC AGE (EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES B C)""; ""Homeric poetry""; ""Homer""; ""Oral poetry""; ""Homer�s world""; ""The Iliad""; ""The Odyssey""; ""The epic after Homer""; ""The Homeric Hymns""; ""The poetry of Hesiod""; ""Hesiod""; ""The Theogony""; ""Works and Days""; ""The Shield""; ""2 THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY FIFTH CENTURY B C)""; ""Early lyric poetry""; ""Iambic poetry""

""Elegiac poetry""""Monody: Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon""; ""The choral lyric""; ""Epinician odes""; ""The birth of philosophy: the Presocratics""; ""From Parmenides to Democritus""; ""The �atomists�""; ""Part 2 THE CLASSICAL AGE AND THE FLOWERING OF ATHENS (FIFTH TO FOURTH CENTURIES BC)""; ""INTRODUCTION:""; ""3 THEATRE""; ""Tragedy""; ""Comedy""; ""4 HISTORY""; ""History before Herodotus""; ""Herodotus, �father of history�""; ""Thucydides and political history""; ""History in the fourth century""; ""5 PHILOSOPHY""; ""Socrates (469�399)""; ""Plato (428�347)""

""Aristotle (384�322)""""The Poetics""; ""6 RHETORIC""; ""Lysias and judicial oratory""; ""Isocrates and Epideictic oratory""; ""Demosthenes and political oratory""; ""Other fourth-century orators""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Part 3 THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""7 POETRY""; ""Menander and New Comedy""; ""Hellenistic poetry""; ""8 PROSE""; ""Philosophy""; ""Historians and geographers""; ""Part 4 THE ROMAN EMPIRE""; ""9 THE EMPIRE FROM AUGUSTUS TO CONSTANTINE ""; ""Classicism""; ""Plutarch and Lucian""; ""Rhetoric""; ""The novel""; ""History""

""Pagan philosophy: between moral theory and exegesis""""Classical culture and Christianity: the birth of Greek Christian literature""; ""10 LATE ANTIQUITY ""; ""The poetry of late antiquity: between plagiarism and transfiguration""; ""History and biography: rupture and confrontation""; ""Rhetoric, mirror of the tensions in Hellenism""; ""Neoplatonism: philosophy as theology""; ""Patristics: the conversion of Hellenism""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""HISTORY OF LITERATURE""; ""WORKS OF REFERENCE""; ""PART 1: HOMER AND THE ARCHAIC PERIOD""; ""General""; ""Homeric Poetry""; ""Hesiod""

""Lyric Poetry""""Iambic and Elegiac Poetry""; ""Monody""; ""Choral Lyric""; ""Presocratic Philosophy""; ""PART 2: THE CLASSICAL AGE AND THE FLOWERING OF ATHENS""; ""Introduction""; ""The Sophists""; ""Hippocratic Medicine""; ""Theatre""; ""Generalia""; ""Tragedy""; ""Aeschylus""; ""Sophocles""; ""Euripides""; ""Aristophanes""; ""History""; ""General""; ""Herodotus""; ""Thucydides""; ""Local Histories""; ""Theopompus""; ""Ephorus""; ""Xenophon""; ""Philosophy""; ""Socrates""; ""Plato""; ""Aristotle""; ""Rhetoric""; ""General""; ""Antiphon""; ""Lysias""; ""Isocrates""; ""Demosthenes""

""Aeschines""

Notes:

"First published in French in two volumes (La litterature grecque d'Homere a Aristote and La litterature grecque d'Alexandre a Justinien) in 1990 by Presses Universitaires de France"--T.p. verso.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Saïd, Suzanne. Littérature grecque d'Homère a Aristote.

Saïd, Suzanne. Littérature grecque d'Alexandre a Justinien.

ISBN:

9786610061907

9781134806577

1134806574

9781134806584

1134806582

9780415122726

0415122724

9781280061905

1280061901

9780203431795

0203431790

OCLC:

252907313