Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory
Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 113654044X

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This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].

Hippocratic Oratory
Hippocratic Oratory

Author: James R. Cross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1317048784

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On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Author: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-02-05

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1527546594

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Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author: Oliver Taplin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780192100207

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The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve 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 to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, 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? --jacket.

Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Author: Jason König

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1472521323

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In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, providing a vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in translation. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them. This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments.

Ancient Greek Literature
Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Kenneth James Dover

Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13:

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Four experts have come together to write this exciting new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors of poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, science, philosophy, and oratory and quotes many passages from their work in translatin, to allow the reader to form his own impression of the quality of the authors discussed. The authors draw attention both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes toward life which are unfamiliar to us and which give it its powerful appeal to succeeding generations.

Classical Literature
Classical Literature

Author: William Allan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0199665451

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William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they continue to influence and fascinate today.

Literature in the Greek World
Literature in the Greek World

Author: Oliver Taplin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780192893031

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'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 theearliest 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?

History of Ancient Greek Literature
History of Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Franco Montanari

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 1211

ISBN-13: 3110426323

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This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity, particularly well-suited for use in the classroom.