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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... criticism. I. Title. PA3081.G88 2007 880.9'001–dc22 2006025004 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12.5 Calisto by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed and bound in Singapore ...
... criticism. I. Title. PA3081.G88 2007 880.9'001–dc22 2006025004 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12.5 Calisto by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed and bound in Singapore ...
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... criticism, even though scholars of Hellenistic literature tend not to fall into theoretical camps. Here I attempt to show how the philological approaches of nineteenth-century scholarship have shaped basic ideas about the learnedness of ...
... criticism, even though scholars of Hellenistic literature tend not to fall into theoretical camps. Here I attempt to show how the philological approaches of nineteenth-century scholarship have shaped basic ideas about the learnedness of ...
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... critic'') rather than a grammatikos (''scholar''), so indicating his interest in literary criticism and in the broader usefulness of literature within society. His interpretation of the shield of Achilles in the Iliad as an emblem of ...
... critic'') rather than a grammatikos (''scholar''), so indicating his interest in literary criticism and in the broader usefulness of literature within society. His interpretation of the shield of Achilles in the Iliad as an emblem of ...
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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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