3. The Poet and His Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. General Editor’s Preface V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. Part I: Production, Reception, and Preservation
6. 1. The Leaf and the Fruit 3
7. 2. The Outward Manifestations 6
8. 3. The Poet and His Work 33
9. 4. Distribution and the Consumer 50
10. 5. Criticism 78
11. 6. Scholarship 89
12. 7. Lives of the Poets 122
13. Part II: Literary Gossip
14. 8. Between Scripture and Classics 133
15. 9. Greek Lyric: Chanted, Sung, or Danced 155
16. 10. The Greek Dramatists 176
17. 11. The Greek Historians 205
18. 12. Philosophy 226
19. 13. The Attic Orators 261
20. 14. Hellenistic and Later Greek Poets 288
21. 15. Creek Prose under Roman Sway 305
22. 16. Romans of the Republic 317
23. 17. The Empire 337
24. Bibliographical Notes 369
25. Index 377