A companion to Greek literature /

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Group Author: Hose, Martin (Editor); Schenker, David J. (Editor)
Published: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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Carrier Form: xix, 552 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781444339420
1444339427
9781119088615
1119088615
Index Number: PA3054
CLC: I545.06
Call Number: I545.06/C737-1
Contents: Production and Transmission -- Mechanics and means of production in antiquity / Lucio Del Corso -- A wound, not a world : textual survival and transmission / Richard H. Armstrong -- Greek Literature as a Dynamic System -- Orality and literacy : ancient Greek literature as oral literature / Steve Reece -- Literature in the Archaic Age / Timothy Power -- Literature in the Classical Age of Greece / James McGlew -- Literature in the Hellenistic world / Anatole Mori -- Greek literature in the Roman world : introducing imperial Greek literature / Jason König -- The encounter with Christianity / Jan Stenger -- Genres -- Greek epic / Hanna M. Roisman -- Lyric : melic, iambic, elegiac / James Bradley Wells -- The ethics of Greek drama / Richard Rader -- Epigram and minor genres / Regina Höschele -- Oratory : practice and theory / Mike Edwards -- Historiography and biography / Antonis Tsakmakis -- Philosophical writing / Martin Hose -- The novel / Stefan Tilg -- Technical literature / Thorsten Fögen -- The Players. -- The creators of literature / Mary Lefkowitz -- Users of literature / René Nünlist -- Sponsors and enemies of literature / David Schenker -- The Places -- Places of production / Martin Hose -- Places of presentation / Manuel Baumbach -- Topos and topoi / Suzanne Said -- Literature and knowledge -- Literature and truth / Martin Hose -- Knowledge of self / Daniela Dueck -- Explicit knowledge / Markus Asper -- Implicit knowledge / David Konstan -- Preserved knowledge / Markus Dubischar -- Literature and Aesthetics -- The language of Greek literature / Andreas Willi -- Poetic devices in Greek literature / Nicholas Baechle -- The function of literature / Victoria Wohl -- The Reception of Greek Literature -- Trends in Greek literature in the contemporary academy / Emily Wilson -- The reception of ancient Greek literature and Western identity / Edith Hall.