Literature in the Greek World: A New Perspective - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192893033 ISBN 13: 9780192893031

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 2001

Riassunto

'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.' The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule. The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Oliver Taplin, a distinguished classicist and author, is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalen College.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192893033
• ISBN 13: 9780192893031
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Redattore: Taplin Oliver