A Companion to Greek LiteratureMartin Hose, David Schenker John Wiley & Sons, 12. okt 2015 - 576 pages 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.
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Contents
List of Illustrations | 8 |
A Companion to Greek Literature 1 | 21 |
Genres 139 | 23 |
Textual Survival and Transmission | 27 |
Greek Literature as a Dynamic System | 41 |
Literature in the Archaic Age | 58 |
Literature in the Classical Age of Greece | 77 |
Introducing Imperial Greek Literature | 112 |
The Creators of Literature | 283 |
Users of Literature | 296 |
Sponsors and Enemies of Literature | 310 |
Places of Production | 325 |
Places of Presentation | 344 |
Topos and Topoi | 353 |
Literature and Truth | 373 |
Knowledge of Self | 386 |
The Encounter with Christianity | 126 |
Greek Epic | 141 |
Melic Iambic Elegiac | 155 |
The Ethics of Greek Drama | 175 |
Epigram and Minor Genres | 190 |
Practice and Theory | 205 |
Historiography and Biography | 217 |
Treatise Dialogue Diatribe Epistle | 235 |
The Novel | 256 |
Technical Literature | 266 |
Explicit Knowledge | 401 |
Implicit Knowledge | 415 |
The Language of Greek Literature | 443 |
Pleasure and Creative Appropriation | 461 |
The Function of Literature | 476 |
Trends in Greek Literature in the Contemporary Academy | 491 |
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