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Full Title

A Short History of Greek Literature 1st Edition

Author(s)

Suzanne Said, Monique Trede

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781134806577, 9780367237455, 9780415122719, 9780415122726, 9780203431795, 9786610061907, 9781280061905, 9781134806539, 9781134806584

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature – from Christian authors – over twelve centuries, from Homer’s epics to the rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period up to Justinian. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the extraordinary creativity of the archaic and classical age, when the major literary genres – epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory and philosophy – were invented and flourished. The second part covers the Hellenistic period, and the third covers the High Empire and Late Antiquity. At that tine the masters of the previous age were elevated to the rank of ‘classics’. The works of the imperial period are replete with literary allusions, yet full of references to contemporary reality.