Literature in the Greek and Roman worlds : a new perspective / edited by Oliver Taplin
2000, 1st edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #429598
ISBN: 0192100203
Physical description: xv, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction / Oliver Taplin -- The spring of the muses : Homer and related poetry / Oliver Taplin -- The strangeness of 'song culture' : archaic Greek poetry / Leslie Kurke -- Powers of horror and laughter : the great age of drama / Peter Wilson -- Charting the poles of history : Herodotos and Thoukydides / Leslie Kurke -- Sages, sophists, and philosophers : Greek wisdom literature / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Observers of speeches and hearers of action : the Athenian orators / Chris Carey -- Sophisticates and solecisms : Greek literature after the classical period / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans : later Greek literature / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Primitivism and power : the beginnings of Latin literature / Matthew Leigh -- Forging a national identity : prose literature down to the time of Augustus / Christina S. Kraus -- Escapes from orthodoxy : poetry of the Republic / Llewelyn Morgan -- Creativity out of chaos : poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil / Llewelyn Morgan -- Coming to terms with the Empire : Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period / Philip Hardie -- The path between truculence and servility : prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian / Christina S. Kraus -- Oblique politics : epic of the imperial period / Matthew Leigh -- Imperial space and time : the literature of leisure / Catherine Connors -- Culture wars : Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era / Michael Dewar. Subjects: Classical literature History and criticism. Classical literature. Greek literature History and criticism. Latin literature History and criticism. Greek literature. Latin literature.
Price: €35.00