The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052135983X ISBN 13: 9780521359832

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.

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Book Description

A comprehensive presentation of nearly 1000 years of Greek literature from pre-Homeric times to the end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilization in the 3rd century A.D. An Appendix of Authors and Works provides additional factual information as well as selective surveys of recent bibliographies.

From the Back Cover

This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 052135983X
• ISBN 13: 9780521359832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Easterling P. E., Knox Bernard M. W.