Hellenistic Period and the Empire

Name: Hellenistic Period and the Empire
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ISBN: 9780521359849

ISBN-10: 0521359848

ISBN-13: 9780521359849

Edition: N/A

Authors: P. E. Easterling, W. V. Clausen, E. J. Kenney, B. M. W. Knox, B. M. W. Knox

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This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index. This volume studies the revolutionary movement represented by the more creative of the Hellenistic poets and finally the very rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period, with rhetoric and the novel contributing a distinctive flavour to the culture of the time. Appropriately enough, the volume closes with a survey of books and readers in the ancient world, which draws attention to the bookish nature of Greek…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/4/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of plates


Abbreviations


Editorial note



Hellenistic Poetry



Introduction



Philetas and others



Callimachus



Theocritus



Apollonius Rhodius



Minor figures



The Literature of the Empire



The early Empire



Poetry



Philostratus and the second sophistic



Science and superstition



Between philosophy and rhetoric



The Greek novel



The fable



Historical writing of the high empire



Book and Readers in the Greek world



From the beginnings to Alexandria



The Hellenistic and imperial periods


Appendixes


Index