I The Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Ancient Greek Literature and its Transmission 1
5. The Archaic Age
6. I The Period 31
7. II Archaic Greek Epic 47
8. III Lyric Poetry 164
9. IV Philosophy 282
10. V Historiography 301
11. VI Fable 314
12. The Classical Age
13. I The Period 319
14. II From the Philosophy of Being to Pluralism 337
15. III Very Early Drama and Aeschylus 347
16. IV Philosophy in the Polis 404
17. V Attic Drama in the Age of Radical Democracy 430
18. VI Drama in the Fourth Century B.C. 516
19. VII Epic and Lyric Poetry between the Fifth and the Fourth Century B.C. 522
20. VIII Medicine and Hippocrates 536
21. IX Fifth-Century-B.C. Historiography 544
22. X Rhetoric and Oratory in the Fifth Century B.C. 591
23. XI Historiography after Thucydides 610
24. XII Fourth-Century-B.C. Oratory 644
25. XIII Philosophy in the Fourth Century B.C. 678
26. The Hellenistic Age
27. I The Period 735
28. II Theatre 750
29. III Philology, Grammar, Erudition 767
30. IV Poetry in the Hellenistic Age 787
31. V The Hellenistic Philosophies 852
32. VI The Sciences 868
33. VII Oratory and Rhetoric 881
34. VIII Historiography 887
35. IX Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature 923
36. The Roman Imperial Period
37. I The Period 929
38. II Rhetoric and Literary Criticism 943
39. III Historiography 954
40. IV Geographical and Periegetic Literature 977
41. V Plutarch of Chaeronea 988
42. VI Jewish and Christian Literature 1001
43. VII Philosophical and Scientific Literature 1022
44. VIII The Second Sophistic and Lucian 1040
45. IX Narrative Literature 1056
46. X Grammar, Scholarship, Compilation 1081
47. XI Oratory and Rhetoric in Late Antiquity 1092
48. XII Poetry in the Imperial Period 1101
49. XIII Christian Literature in Greek 1114
50. Bibliography of Translations 1151
51. Index of Authors 1159