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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Kathryn Gutzwiller. BLACKWELL GUIDES TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE Each volume offers coverage of political and cultural context, brief essays on key authors, historical figures, and the most important literary works, and a survey of crucial ...
Kathryn Gutzwiller. BLACKWELL GUIDES TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE Each volume offers coverage of political and cultural context, brief essays on key authors, historical figures, and the most important literary works, and a survey of crucial ...
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... Culture 1 2 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Successors Macedonia and Greece Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact ...
... Culture 1 2 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Successors Macedonia and Greece Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact ...
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... Culture and Performance 4.3 Social and Political Background 4.4 The Critical Impulse in Literature and Art 4.5 Reception in Rome Notes Chronological Tables Suggested Reading Bibliography Index 120 131 144 154 168 169 178 188 202 213 223 ...
... Culture and Performance 4.3 Social and Political Background 4.4 The Critical Impulse in Literature and Art 4.5 Reception in Rome Notes Chronological Tables Suggested Reading Bibliography Index 120 131 144 154 168 169 178 188 202 213 223 ...
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... culture, which focuses on the formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and briefly discusses historical, cultural, and literary developments in the territories belonging to the Antigonids, Seleucids, Attalids, and Ptolemies. The second ...
... culture, which focuses on the formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and briefly discusses historical, cultural, and literary developments in the territories belonging to the Antigonids, Seleucids, Attalids, and Ptolemies. The second ...
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... cultural and 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 ...
... cultural and 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 ...
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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