History of ancient Greek literature. Volume 1. : the archaic and classical ages. / Franco Montanari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montanari, Franco, author.

Series:

De Gruyter Reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature.

Greek literature.

Christian literature, Early.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1196 pages)

Edition:

2 Bände, 1 ISBN

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Montanari, Franco History of Ancient Greek Literature

ISBN:

3-11-042632-3