A history of Greek literature /
From the speculative beginnings before Homer all the way through to Greek works under the Roman empire. Includes summaries of important works.
| Основен автор: | Lesky, Albin, 1896- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English Undetermined |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Crowell,
[1966]
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
History of Greek literature. |
Съдържание:
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction to the first edition
- I. The transmission of Greek literature
- II. The beginnings
- III. The Homeric epic
- A. The Iliad and Odyssey
- B. The epic cycle
- C. The Homeric hymns
- D. Other works attributed to Homer
- IV. The archaic period
- A. Hesiod
- B. Archaic epic after Hesiod
- C. Early lyric poetry
- D. Folk-tales
- E. Religious literature
- F. The beginnings of philosophy
- G. Mature archaic lyric: Theognis; The epigram and the scolion; Anacreon; Songwriters on the mainland; Choral lyric
- H. Philosophy at the end of the archaic period
- I. The beginnings of science and historiography
- I. Beginnings of drama
- V. The flowering of the Greek city state
- A. Beginning and culmination of the classical period: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Other forms of poetry; Damon and the theory of music; Herodotus; Other historians; Philosophy
- B. The enlightenment and its opponents: the Sophists and the beginnings of rhetoric; Euripides; Other tragic writers; Other poetry; Political comedy; Political writings; Thucydides; The sciences; Socrates
- C. The fourth century up to Alexander: Plato and the Academy; Aristotle and the Peripatos; The art of rhetoric; Historiography; Drama; Other forms of poetry
- VI. The Hellenistic age
- A. Athens: New comedy; Attic prose; The philosophical systems
- B. The new centres: General characteristics; Callimachus; Theocritus; Apollonius; Epigram; Drama; Other poetry; Historiography; The sciences; Pseudopythagorean literature; Jewish-Hellenistic literature
- VII. The empire
- A. Poetry
- B. Prose: Plutarch; The second Sophistic; Historiographers and periegetes; Prose romance an epistolography; The second sophistic in the later era; Philosophy; The sciences.