Fifty Key Classical Authors

by Sharrock; Alison

• ISBN13: 9780415165105
• ISBN10: 0415165105
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Covering ten centuries, this fascinating introduction to the key Greek and Roman authors begins with writers like Homer and Sappho and concludes at the onset of the Late Antique period with the likes of Lucian and Cassius Dio. Set in within a chronological framework, this brilliant collection aims to tell the story of classical literature: how it developed, flourished, and changed throughout the ages. The individual essays, which constitute the main body of the book, give for each of the fifty authors a substantial introduction to the author's life, works, and cultural and social positions. The essays collectively create an overall sense of the main periods of the flowering classical culture, and of the significance of historical events which affected it. The reader sees firsthand how ancient literature was bound up in its historical, political, and social context. Genre tables, timelines, and useful appendices makes this book an ideal resource for the both the undergraduate student and thegeneral reader of the classics.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical list of contents	viii
Preface	x
Introduction	xi
In the Beginning	1	(32)
Homer	3	(9)
Hesiod	12	(6)
Archilochus	18	(6)
Sappho	24	(9)
Athenian Hegemony	33	(60)
Aeschylus	35	(8)
Pindar	43	(7)
Sophocles	50	(7)
Herodotus	57	(8)
Euripides	65	(9)
Thucydides	74	(10)
Aristophanes	84	(9)
Fourth Century	93	(44)
Lysias	95	(8)
Xenophon	103	(7)
Plato	110	(8)
Demosthenes	118	(10)
Aristotle	128	(9)
Hellenistic	137	(32)
Menander	139	(6)
Callimachus	145	(9)
Apollonius Rhodius	154	(6)
Theocritus	160	(9)
Early Roman	169	(32)
Ennius	171	(6)
Plautus	177	(8)
Polybius	185	(7)
Terence	192	(9)
Late Republican	201	(42)
Cicero	203	(11)
Julius Caesar	214	(7)
Lucretius	221	(7)
Catullus	228	(6)
Sallust	234	(9)
Augustan	243	(54)
Virgil	245	(15)
Horace	260	(9)
Livy	269	(7)
Propertius	276	(6)
Ovid	282	(9)
Sulpicia	291	(6)
Neronian and Flavian	297	(46)
Seneca the Younger	299	(11)
Petronius	310	(6)
Quintilian	316	(6)
Lucan	322	(7)
Martial	329	(5)
Statius	334	(9)
Trajan and Hadrian	343	(34)
Plutarch	345	(5)
Tacitus	350	(8)
Pliny the Younger	358	(7)
Suetonius	365	(5)
Juvenal	370	(7)
(Not) The End	377	(30)
Lucian	379	(5)
Apuleius	384	(9)
Longus	393	(8)
Cassius Dio	401	(6)
Timeline	407	(6)
Index	413