Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 332 pages)
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Edition:
2nd ed., rev
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
9781501745461
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1501745468
Content:
Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political-and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional-quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
0801418747
Additional Edition:
9780801418747
Additional Edition:
0801494443
Additional Edition:
9780801494444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beye, Charles Rowan Ancient Greek literature and society Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987
Language:
English
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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