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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... authors, historical figures, and the most important literary works, and a survey of crucial themes. The series provides the necessary background to read classical literature with confidence. Published A Guide to Hellenistic Literature ...
... authors, historical figures, and the most important literary works, and a survey of crucial themes. The series provides the necessary background to read classical literature with confidence. Published A Guide to Hellenistic Literature ...
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... authors, together with a small number of more minor ones. This study covers a broader range of literature, so that, although poetry is treated most fully, prose texts, even those of a technical nature, receive some attention; an ...
... authors, together with a small number of more minor ones. This study covers a broader range of literature, so that, although poetry is treated most fully, prose texts, even those of a technical nature, receive some attention; an ...
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... authors are designed to give a sense of the range of (often lost) Hellenistic literature and to suggest what cultural and aesthetic impulses produced the variety of literary forms found during the period. The last chapter treats major ...
... authors are designed to give a sense of the range of (often lost) Hellenistic literature and to suggest what cultural and aesthetic impulses produced the variety of literary forms found during the period. The last chapter treats major ...
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... authors. The most spectacular of these was the court of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, who established poets and scholars alike in the Museum and Library complex that graced their new capital at Alexandria. 1. 1.1 The Successors After a ...
... authors. The most spectacular of these was the court of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, who established poets and scholars alike in the Museum and Library complex that graced their new capital at Alexandria. 1. 1.1 The Successors After a ...
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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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