Tim Whitmarsh (Exeter University)

Ancient Greek Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting--edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Cultural History of Literature
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780745627922
• ISBN-10: 0745627927
• Artikelnr.: 13594743

Autorenporträt

Tim Whitmarsh is a reader in Greek Literature at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Section one: concepts.
1) 'Greek literature' and cultural history.
2) The problem of tradition.
Section two: contexts.
3) Festival.
4) Symposium.
5) Theatre.
6) The power of speech.
7) Inventing the archive: Athens.
8) Building the archive: Alexandria.
9) Reading from the archive: Roman Greece.
Section three: conflicts.
10) Inventing the Greek.
11) A woman's place.
12) Sexing the text.
13) Status and slavery.
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Notes.
Chronology of Greek Literature.
References.
Index of Greek Authors.
General Index