A Companion to Greek Literature

A Companion to Greek Literature
Title A Companion to Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author Martin Hose
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 572
Release 2015-10-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1444339427

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A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways

A History of Greek Literature

A History of Greek Literature
Title A History of Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author Albin Lesky
Publisher Hackett Publishing
Pages 952
Release 1996-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780872203501

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"First published as Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur by Francke Verlag, Bern"--T.p. verso.

Ancient Greek Literature

Ancient Greek Literature
Title Ancient Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 284
Release 2004
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780745627915

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In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Whitmarsh offers new readings of some of the best-known and most influential authors of Greek antiquity, including Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Aristophanes and Plato, as well as introducing many lesser-known figures. Unlike conventional narrative histories, this volume focuses on the profound effects of literature within Greek society. Whitmarsh shows that literature, distributed via a range of social institutions, such as festivals, theatres, symposia and book production, played an important role in the legitimization – and challenging – of ideologies of gender, class and cultural identity. The volume also addresses the legacy of Greek literature: how the Victorian cult of Hellenism and its successors have structured the reception of ancient texts, and how and why the modern West has adopted the Greeks as its ancestors. This book will be important reading for undergraduates, in their first year and above, of ancient Greek literature and culture. All texts in the volume are translated, and no knowledge of ancient Greek literature is assumed.

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Title Collected Ancient Greek Novels PDF eBook
Author B. P. Reardon
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 982
Release 2019-05-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520305590

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Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.

Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Title Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature PDF eBook
Author William Hansen
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 386
Release 1998-04-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780253211576

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Not all readers in ancient Greece whiled away the hours with Homer, Plato, or Sophocles - at least, not always. Many enjoyed light reading, such as can be found in the pages of this lively anthology. Various types of popular writing - novels, short stories, books of jokes or fables, fortune-telling handbooks - trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean. In fact, some of this literature was so successful that it remained in circulation for centuries, even into the Middle Ages. Translated into other languages, these works were the best sellers of their time and remain enjoyable reading today. They are also fascinating social documents that reveal much about the daily lives, humor, loves, anxieties, fantasies, values, and beliefs of ordinary men and women.

A Short History of Greek Literature

A Short History of Greek Literature
Title A Short History of Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 320
Release 1985
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226143120

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Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.

Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Title Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Kate Gilhuly
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2014-09-22
Genre History
ISBN 1139992716

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This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.