History of Ancient Greek Literature: Volume 1: The Archaic and Classical Ages. Volume 2: The Hellenistic Age and the Roman Imperial Period

Franco Montanari

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History of Ancient Greek Literature

Volume 1: The Archaic and Classical Ages. Volume 2: The Hellenistic Age and the Roman Imperial Period

Franco Montanari
In collaboration with: Fausto Montana
Translated by: Orla Mulholland and Rachel Barritt Costa

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Spanning over 1100+ pages, this two-volume work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity.

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Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Ancient Greek Literature and its Transmission Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
The Archaic Age
I The Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
II Archaic Greek Epic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
III Lyric Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
IV Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
V Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
VI Fable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	314
The Classical Age
I The Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
II From the Philosophy of Being to Pluralism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
III Very Early Drama and Aeschylus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
IV Philosophy in the Polis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	404
V Attic Drama in the Age of Radical Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	430
VI Drama in the Fourth Century B.C. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	516
VII Epic and Lyric Poetry between the Fifth and the Fourth Century B.C. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	522
VIII Medicine and Hippocrates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	536
IX Fifth-Century-B.C. Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	544
X Rhetoric and Oratory in the Fifth Century B.C. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	591
XI Historiography after Thucydides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	610
XII Fourth-Century-B.C. Oratory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	644
XIII Philosophy in the Fourth Century B.C. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	678
The Hellenistic Age
I The Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	735
II Theatre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	750
III Philology, Grammar, Erudition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	767
IV Poetry in the Hellenistic Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	787
V The Hellenistic Philosophies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	852
VI The Sciences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	868
VII Oratory and Rhetoric Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	881
VIII Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	887
IX Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	923
The Roman Imperial Period
I The Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	929
II Rhetoric and Literary Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	943
III Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	954
IV Geographical and Periegetic Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	977
V Plutarch of Chaeronea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	988
VI Jewish and Christian Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1001
VII Philosophical and Scientific Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1022
VIII The Second Sophistic and Lucian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1040
IX Narrative Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1056
X Grammar, Scholarship, Compilation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1081
XI Oratory and Rhetoric in Late Antiquity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1092
XII Poetry in the Imperial Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1101
XIII Christian Literature in Greek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1114
Bibliography of Translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1151
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1159

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eBook published on:

May 9, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110426328

Hardcover published on:

May 23, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110419924

Paperback published on:

June 17, 2024

Paperback ISBN:

9783110419931

Edition:

2 Bände, 1 ISBN

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

37

Main content:

1174

Illustrations:

2

Tables:

5

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110426328

eBook ISBN: 9783110426328

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110419924

Paperback ISBN: 9783110419931

Keywords for this book

Greek literature; Ancient Greece; literary history

Audience(s) for this book

Classical philologists, Literary historians, Ancient historians

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History of Ancient Greek Literature

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