Literature in the Greek world
This work attempts to shed light on the reception on Greek literature in the modern world. The collected essays deal with how we, as modern readers, draw upon and interact with the works of ancient Greece
Aufsatzsammlung
xxvii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
9780192893031, 0192893033
46984882
Introduction / Oliver Taplin
The spring of the muses : Homer and related poetry / Oliver Taplin
The strangeness of :song culture" : archaic Greek poetry / Leslie Kurke
Powers of horror and laughter : the great age of drama / Peter Wilson
Charting the poles of history : Herodotos and Thoukydides / Leslie Kurke
Sages, sophists, and philosophers : Greek wisdom literature / Andrea Wilson Nightengale
Observers of speeches and hearers of action : the Athenian orators / Chris Carey
Sophisticates and solecisms : Greek literature after the classical period / Jane L. Lightfoot
Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans : later Greek literature / Jane L. Lightfoot