History of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Hellenistic Period

by Dihle,Albrecht

• ISBN13: 9780415086202
• ISBN10: 0415086205
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Albrecht Dihle presents the most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period is embedded in its historical and social context. Dihle sees this literature as an historical phenomenon, a particular mode of linguistic communication, with its specific forms developing both in an organic way and in response to the changing world around. In this it differs from conventional humanist approaches to Greek and Latin literature which analyze the works as objects of timeless value independent of any historical setting or purpose. This magisterial survey by one of the leading European authorities on classical literature will establish itself, as it already has in Germany, as the standard account of the subject.

Table of Contents

Preface

Archaic Literature

The Beginnings and Early Epic Poetry

The Earliest Non-epic Poetry

Early Prose

Late Archaic Poetry

Philosophy and Science Classical Literature of the Fifth Century B.C

Aeschylus and the Beginnings of Tragedy

Sophocles and Euripides

Old Comedy

Philosophy, Rhetoric and Science

Herodotus and Thucydides Classical Literature of the Fourth Century B.C

Socrates and Socratic Literature

Plato, Aristotle and their Schools

Rhetoric

Entertainment Literature, Factual Literature and Historiography

Poetry Hellenistic Literature

Hellenism and its Philosophy

Dramatic Poetry

Callimachus and Lyric Poetry

Apollonius Rhodius and Epic Poetry

Theocritus and Pastoral Poetry

The Epigram

Specialist Prose and Rhetoric

Historiography and Geography

Entertainment Literature

Jewish Literature

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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