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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Page xi
... literary interpretation of major 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 ...
... literary interpretation of major 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 ...
Page xii
... 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 literary criticism, even though scholars 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 literary criticism, even though scholars of ...
Page 1
... literary production of the following era. Despite much cultural continuity in non-Greek areas, the elite members of the new multiethnic kingdoms developed a shared identity as Hellenes, based on an attachment to earlier Greek culture ...
... literary production of the following era. Despite much cultural continuity in non-Greek areas, the elite members of the new multiethnic kingdoms developed a shared identity as Hellenes, based on an attachment to earlier Greek culture ...
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... literary papyrus, containing a philosophical text on Orphic cosmology, was found in a tomb of about 340–330 at Derveni in Macedonia. Perhaps related were the mysteries of Dionysus, involving promises of an afterlife, which were popular ...
... literary papyrus, containing a philosophical text on Orphic cosmology, was found in a tomb of about 340–330 at Derveni in Macedonia. Perhaps related were the mysteries of Dionysus, involving promises of an afterlife, which were popular ...
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... literary or intellectual culture was not altogether lacking, especially when it supported dynastic interests. Berossus of Babylon composed for Antiochus I a (now fragmentary) cultural history of Babylonia, which began with creation ...
... literary or intellectual culture was not altogether lacking, especially when it supported dynastic interests. Berossus of Babylon composed for Antiochus I a (now fragmentary) cultural history of Babylonia, which began with creation ...
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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