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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

    I
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    Preface

    V
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    Contents

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    Introduction: Ancient Greek Literature and its Transmission

    1
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  • The Archaic Age
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    I The Period

    31
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    II Archaic Greek Epic

    47
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    III Lyric Poetry

    164
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    IV Philosophy

    282
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    V Historiography

    301
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    VI Fable

    314
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  • The Classical Age
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    I The Period

    319
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    II From the Philosophy of Being to Pluralism

    337
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    III Very Early Drama and Aeschylus

    347
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    IV Philosophy in the Polis

    404
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    V Attic Drama in the Age of Radical Democracy

    430
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    VI Drama in the Fourth Century B.C.

    516
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    VII Epic and Lyric Poetry between the Fifth and the Fourth Century B.C.

    522
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    VIII Medicine and Hippocrates

    536
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    IX Fifth-Century-B.C. Historiography

    544
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    X Rhetoric and Oratory in the Fifth Century B.C.

    591
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    XI Historiography after Thucydides

    610
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    XII Fourth-Century-B.C. Oratory

    644
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    XIII Philosophy in the Fourth Century B.C.

    678
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  • The Hellenistic Age
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    I The Period

    735
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    II Theatre

    750
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    III Philology, Grammar, Erudition

    767
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    IV Poetry in the Hellenistic Age

    787
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    V The Hellenistic Philosophies

    852
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    VI The Sciences

    868
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    VII Oratory and Rhetoric

    881
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    VIII Historiography

    887
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    IX Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature

    923
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  • The Roman Imperial Period
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    I The Period

    929
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    II Rhetoric and Literary Criticism

    943
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    III Historiography

    954
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    IV Geographical and Periegetic Literature

    977
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    V Plutarch of Chaeronea

    988
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    VI Jewish and Christian Literature

    1001
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    VII Philosophical and Scientific Literature

    1022
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    VIII The Second Sophistic and Lucian

    1040
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    IX Narrative Literature

    1056
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    X Grammar, Scholarship, Compilation

    1081
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    XI Oratory and Rhetoric in Late Antiquity

    1092
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    XII Poetry in the Imperial Period

    1101
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    XIII Christian Literature in Greek

    1114
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    Bibliography of Translations

    1151
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    Index of Authors

    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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