Author: Frederick William HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A Companion of Classical Texts
Author: Frederick William HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A Companion to Greek Literature
Author: Martin HosePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444339427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Author: Sir Paul HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Author: Simon HornblowerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198706774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 907
Book Description
This Oxford Companion to the ancient classical world is aimed at the general reader interested in learning more about the very bedrock of Western culture, covering such topics as history, morals, mythology, medicine and social life.
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Author: Lorna HardwickPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444393774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Author: Jenifer NeilsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
Author: Liba TaubPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107092485
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
Author: Earl MinerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Author: Sean D. KirklandPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137887
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task—accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and careful interpretation. Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume should be of great value both to students just starting off reading the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philosophy's deepest abiding questions.
A Companion to the Classical Greek World
Author: Konrad H. KinzlPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444334123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This Companion provides scholarly yet accessible new interpretations of Greek history of the Classical period, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Topics covered range from the political and institutional structures of Greek society, to literature, art, economics, society, warfare, geography and the environment Discusses the problems of interpreting the various sources for the period Guides the reader towards a broadly-based understanding of the history of the Classical Age