Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A New PerspectiveOliver Taplin Oxford University Press, 2000 - 596 páginas 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. |
Contenido
GREEK LITERATURE | 5 |
The great age of drama | 88 |
Herodotos and Thoukydides | 133 |
Greek wisdom literature | 156 |
The Athenian orators | 192 |
Greek literature after the classical period | 217 |
Later Greek literature | 257 |
Prose literature down to the time | 311 |
Poetry of the later Augustan | 403 |
Prose literature from | 438 |
Epic of the imperial period | 468 |
The literature of leisure | 492 |
Latin literature from the second century to the end | 519 |
| 547 | |
Chronology | 563 |
Acknowledgements | 573 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aeneas Aeneid ancient archaic Archilochos argument aristocratic Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens audience Augustus Caesar Cato Catullus choral poetry chorus Cicero citizens claim classical comedy comic composed contemporary context culture dialogue Dionysia Dionysos drama early elegy élite emperor Empire Ennius epic epigram Euripides example fact festivals fifth century fourth century fragments genre gods Greece Greek world Hellenistic period Herodotos Hesiod hexameter Hipponax Homer honour Horace Iliad imperial important intellectual Ionian Isokrates Kallimachos kind later Latin literary literature lives Lucretius lyric narrative Odyssey oral orators oratory Ovid papyrus performance Persian philosopher Plato Plautus play poem poet poetic poetry political Propertius prose readers recited rhetoric Roman Rome Satires scholars slave social Sokrates song sophists speaker speech Statius story style survive tells theatre things Thoukydides tion traditional tragedy tragic trans Troy verse Virgil wisdom women words writing written Xenophon