A Guide to Hellenistic LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 280 pages This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.
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... Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Menander Callimachus Apollonius of Rhodes Theocritus and the Other Bucolic ...
... Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Menander Callimachus Apollonius of Rhodes Theocritus and the Other Bucolic ...
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... aesthetics that informed Hellenistic literature. It includes a section on style, meter, and diction, and concludes with an overview of the physical nature of Hellenistic bookrolls. The third chapter is organized into sections on major ...
... aesthetics that informed Hellenistic literature. It includes a section on style, meter, and diction, and concludes with an overview of the physical nature of Hellenistic bookrolls. The third chapter is organized into sections on major ...
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... aesthetic impulses produced the variety of literary forms found during the period. The last chapter treats major topics in Hellenistic literature. The interpretive trends presented here often overlap with more general approaches in ...
... aesthetic impulses produced the variety of literary forms found during the period. The last chapter treats major topics in Hellenistic literature. The interpretive trends presented here often overlap with more general approaches in ...
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Contents
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2 Aesthetics and Style | 26 |
3 Authors and Genres | 50 |
4 Topics in Hellenistic Literature | 168 |
Notes | 223 |
Chronological Tables | 228 |
Suggested Reading | 230 |
Bibliography | 239 |
Index | 251 |
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