Ancient Greek literature and society /

Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Gr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beye, Charles Rowan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Edición:2nd ed., rev.
Temas:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Greece.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grèce.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Greek literature.
Literature and society.
Greece.
Greek literature, to ca 500 - Critical studies
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political-and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional-quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index.
ISBN:9781501745461
1501745468

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