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Book Synopsis Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature by : William F. Hansen
Download or read book Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature written by William F. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all readers in ancient Greece whiled away the hours with Homer, Plato, or Sophocles - at least, not always. Many enjoyed light reading, such as can be found in the pages of this lively anthology. Various types of popular writing - novels, short stories, books of jokes or fables, fortune-telling handbooks - trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean. In fact, some of this literature was so successful that it remained in circulation for centuries, even into the Middle Ages. Translated into other languages, these works were the best sellers of their time and remain enjoyable reading today. They are also fascinating social documents that reveal much about the daily lives, humor, loves, anxieties, fantasies, values, and beliefs of ordinary men and women.
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Literature in Its Living Context by : H. C. Baldry
Download or read book Ancient Greek Literature in Its Living Context written by H. C. Baldry and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies archaeological techniques and findings to the study of the types of Greek literature.
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Literature and Society by : Charles R. Beye
Download or read book Ancient Greek Literature and Society written by Charles R. Beye and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Greek Literature by : Suzanne Said
Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature written by Suzanne Said and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Greek Literature for the Modern Reader by : H. C. Baldry
Download or read book Greek Literature for the Modern Reader written by H. C. Baldry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1951, this book was written to provide an introduction to ancient Greek literature for the general reader. All quotations are translated into English and a lack of knowledge regarding the ancient world is taken for granted. In spite of its introductory status, the text is notable for having a self-consciously personal approach. As the author states in the preface, 'My aim was not to achieve completeness or objectivity (which, if it were possible, would be very dull) but merely to write a history of Greek literature as I see it.' This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek literature and literary criticism.
Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Greek Literature by : Gilbert Murray
Download or read book A History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Gilbert Murray and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Literature ... by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Download or read book Ancient Greek Literature ... written by Cecil Maurice Bowra and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Greek Literature by : Gilbert Murray
Download or read book A History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Gilbert Murray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Ancient Greek Literature To read and re-read the scanty remains now left to us of the Literature of Ancient Greece, is a pleasant and not a laborious task; nor is that task greatly increased by the inclusion of the 'Scholia' or ancient commentaries. But modern scholarship has been prolific in the making of books; and as regards this department of my subject, I must frankly accept the verdict passed by a German critic upon a historian of vastly wider erudition than mine, and confess that I 'stand helpless before the mass of my material.' To be more precise, I believe that in the domain of Epic, Lyric, and Tragic Poetry, I am fairly familiar with the researches of recent years; and I have endeavoured to read the more celebrated books on Prose and Comic control; but I hope that comparatively few articles of importance in the last twenty volumes of the Hermes, the Rheinisches Museum, the Philologus, and the English Classical Journals, have escaped my consideration. More than this I have but rarely attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Primer of Greek Literature by : Sir Richard C. Jebb
Download or read book Primer of Greek Literature written by Sir Richard C. Jebb and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Primer Of Greek Literature, Originally Published In 1877, Is, Till Date, The Finest Introduction To The Literary World Of The Greeks. The Book Is Divided Into Three Parts: The Early Literature, The Attic Literature And The Literature Of The Decadence. Written By No Less A Scholar Than Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O.M., The Greatest Greek Scholar Of His Time, The Book Offers, In A Very Lucid Style And Precise Manner, An Authentic Sketch Of Greek Literature. In The Words Of Sir Jebb The Book Is Written In Such A Way That It Should Be Useful, Not Only To Students Of Greek, But Also To Those Who Do Not Know Greek, And Who Will Never Read A Greek Book Except In A Translation. And So The Sketch Is Intended To Serve As A Framework Into Which Those Who Read Any Of The Greek Books, Whether In Original Or In English, May Fit What They Read. It Is A Highly Rewarding And Sustaining Experience To Enter The World Of Greek Literature With No Less A Guide Than Sir R.C. Jebb Who May Be Said To Hold The Greek Literature In The Palm Of His Hand. Students Of Ancient European Classics Will Find This Book Extremely Useful As An Introduction To The World Of Greek Literature, And Even The General Readers Who Are Interested In Greek Civilization And Culture Will Find This Book Quite Interesting.
Book Synopsis History of Greek Literature by : Albrecht Dihle
Download or read book History of Greek Literature written by Albrecht Dihle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period of some eight centuries is embedded in its historical and social context, and Professor Dihle sees this literature as a historical phenomenon, a particular mode of linguistic communication, with its specific forms developing both in an organic way and in response to the changing world around. In this it differs from conventional humanist approaches to Greek and Latin literature which analyse the works as objects of timeless value independent of any historical setting or purpose. This magisterial survey by one of the leading European authorities on classical literature will establish itself, as it already has in Germany, as the standard account of the subject.
Book Synopsis HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE by : GILBERT. MURRAY
Download or read book HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE written by GILBERT. MURRAY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece by : Karl Otfried Müller
Download or read book A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece written by Karl Otfried Müller and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature by : Irene J. F. De Jong
Download or read book Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature written by Irene J. F. De Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Greek Literature by : Martin Hose
Download or read book A Companion to Greek Literature written by Martin Hose and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Greek Literature by : Harold North Fowler
Download or read book A History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Harold North Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Greek Literature by : Albin Lesky
Download or read book A History of Greek Literature written by Albin Lesky and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1996 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work provides a continuous account of the whole of Greek literature in one volume. Particularly useful for the student are the careful summaries of the works dealt with and the judicious accounts of scholarly controversy on the more hotly debated points. First published in German in 1958, the book was extensively rewritten for the second edition in 1963, from which this translation, which was originally published by Methuen in 1966, was made. This new reprint makes it available once again to student and anyone with an interest in this formative period of literary history. From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature by : Alexandros Kampakoglou
Download or read book Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature written by Alexandros Kampakoglou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.