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ISBN 10: 0415468132

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Author: Neil Croally, Roy Hyde

Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia. The literature is put in historical context, and the material is organized chronologically, but also by genre or author, as appropriate; each section or chapter has suggestions for further reading. The book ranges from Homer to the writers of the later Roman Empire, and includes a glossary, a chronology of literary and political events, and useful maps showing the origins of ancient writers. The collection will be essential for students and others who want a structured and informative introduction to the literature of the classical world.

Classical Literature An Introduction 1st Table of contents:

1 Introductions

Greek dialects

Literacy

Metre, music, genre

The Olympic and other games

Patrons and authors

Religion and mythology

Rhetoric and education

The sexes and sexuality

Slavery

The symposium

Texts and fragments

War

2 Homer

The Homeric Poems

Storytelling

Gods and Mortals

Homeric Values

3 From Homer to tragedy

Archaic Greece: The Rise of the Polis

Early Greek Poetry: Hesiod

Early Greek Poetry: Elegy, Iambus and Lyric

4 Interlude: Greek History in the Classical Period

Up to the end of the Peloponnesian War

From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander

5 The drama of classical Athens

The Athenian Democracy and the Dramatic Festivals

Tragedy

Aristophanic Comedy

Middle and New Comedy

6 Historical writing in the classical era

Herodotus

Thucydides

Xenophon

Later Greek Historiography

7 Rhetorical and philosophical writing

Law Courts, Rhetoric, The Sophists in Classical Athens

Classical Oratory

Early Greek Philosophy

Plato and Aristotle

8 Alexandria and beyond

Alexandria, Greece and Rome

Hellenistic Literature

9 The early republic

The Early Republic: An Historical Introduction

Early Latin Poetry

Roman Comic Drama

10 The late republic

The Late Republic: An Historical Introduction

Cicero

Caesar

Sallust

Lucretius: The Poem and the World

Catullus: The Poetry of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Poetry

Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics

Horace: The Early Poetry

11 The Augustan age

The Augustan Age: An Historical Introduction

Livy

Virgil: The Aeneid

Horace: The Later Poetry

Love Elegy

Ovid

12 The early empire

The Early Empire: An Historical Introduction

Seneca (c. 4–65)

Persius, Martial and Juvenal

Lucan, Statius and Others

Tacitus

Pliny the Younger

Suetonius

13 Greece and Rome come together: later literature

Later Antiquity: an Historical Introduction

Later Literature: a Brief Introduction

The Latin Novel: Petronius and Apuleius

The Greek Novel

The Revival of Greek Prose Literature

Latin Prose Literature of the Later Empire

Later Greek and Latin Poetry

Classicism and Christianity: Prose and Verse

Reception: A Few Words

Glossary

Maps

Chronology

Bibliography

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