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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... 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 Kathryn Gutzwiller A Guide to Ancient Greek ...
... 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 Kathryn Gutzwiller A Guide to Ancient Greek ...
Page xii
... importance of technical and scientific prose for the new poetics. Lastly, some brief remarks are provided about the reception of Hellenistic literature in Rome, or perhaps better, the way Hellenistic literature was rewritten in Latin ...
... importance of technical and scientific prose for the new poetics. Lastly, some brief remarks are provided about the reception of Hellenistic literature in Rome, or perhaps better, the way Hellenistic literature was rewritten in Latin ...
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... important kingdom, which gradually seceded from the Seleucids during the middle decades of the third century, was that of the Attalids at Pergamum, a city of Mysia in western Asia Minor. For all these kingdoms the period of greatest ...
... important kingdom, which gradually seceded from the Seleucids during the middle decades of the third century, was that of the Attalids at Pergamum, a city of Mysia in western Asia Minor. For all these kingdoms the period of greatest ...
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... important effect of Seleucid domination was a process of hellenization, which took place even in the distant eastern territories. Spreading Hellenic culture may not, as such, have been a primary goal of the Seleucids, and certainly ...
... important effect of Seleucid domination was a process of hellenization, which took place even in the distant eastern territories. Spreading Hellenic culture may not, as such, have been a primary goal of the Seleucids, and certainly ...
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... important as rivals to the Ptolemies in intellectual and scholarly pursuits, for their development of a baroque style in art, and for their transmission of Hellenistic culture to Rome. From 302 Pergamum was administered for Lysimachus ...
... important as rivals to the Ptolemies in intellectual and scholarly pursuits, for their development of a baroque style in art, and for their transmission of Hellenistic culture to Rome. From 302 Pergamum was administered for Lysimachus ...
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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