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Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period: An Anthology (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library) - Hardcover
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.D. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts.
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Works by poets hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses are made easily accessible for the first time within a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.D. Genres represented include epic, epyllion. didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable.
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This volume contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus, and Babrius, who have hitherto been neglected in Classical syllabuses.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0521411556
- ISBN 13 9780521411554
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages238
- EditorHopkinson Neil
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