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Cover 1 A HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Table of Contents 5 Preface 7 Part I Archaic literature 11 1 THE BEGINNINGS AND THE EARLY EPIC POEM 12 2 THE EARLIEST NON-EPIC POETRY 39 3 EARLY PROSE 66 4 LATE ARCHAIC POETRY 73 5 PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE 91 Part II Classical literature of the fifth century BC 98 6 AESCHYLUS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF TRAGEDY 99 7 SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES 117 8 OLD COMEDY 141 9 PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC AND SCIENCE 151 10 HERODOTUS AND THUCYDIDES 166 Part III Classical literature of the fourth century BC 178 11 SOCRATES AND SOCRATIC THOUGHT 179 12 PLATO, ARISTOTLE AND THEIR SCHOOLS 186 13 RHETORIC 209 14 ENTERTAINMENT LITERATURE, FACTUAL LITERATURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 221 15 POETRY 229 Part IV Hellenistic literature 235 16 HELLENISM AND ITS PHILOSOPHY 236 17 DRAMATIC POETRY 254 18 CALLIMACHUS AND LYRIC POETRY 261 19 APOLLONIUS RHODIUS AND EPIC POETRY 271 20 THEOCRITUS AND BUCOLIC POETRY 277 21 THE EPIGRAM 282 22 SPECIALIST PROSE AND RHETORIC 286 23 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY 294 24 ENTERTAINMENT LITERATURE 304 25 JEWISH LITERATURE 309 Epilogue 317 Bibliography 320 Index 332 From Homer to the Hellenistic Period

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Author
Albrecht Dihle
Publisher
Routledge
Published
1994
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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