The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4, The Hellenistic Period and the Empire: Greek Literature v. 1

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 5/4/1989
EAN 9780521359849, ISBN10: 0521359848

Paperback, 292 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

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 literature from the Hellenistic period onwards and points forward to its survival into the Middle Ages.

List of plates
Abbreviations
Editorial note
Part I. Hellenistic Poetry
1. Introduction
2. Philetas and others
3. Callimachus
4. Theocritus
5. Apollonius Rhodius
6. Minor figures
Part II. The Literature of the Empire
7. The early Empire
8. Poetry
9. Philostratus and the second sophistic
10. Science and superstition
11. Between philosophy and rhetoric
12. The Greek novel
13. The fable
14. Historical writing of the high empire
Part III. Book and Readers in the Greek world
15. From the beginnings to Alexandria
16. The Hellenistic and imperial periods
Appendixes
Index.