Literature in the Greek and Roman worlds : a new perspective
Title:
Literature in the Greek and Roman worlds : a new perspective
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Oliver Taplin.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
Physical Description:
xv, 596 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780192100207
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-561) and index.
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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.