Literature in the Greek and Roman worlds : a new perspective
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780192100207, 0192100203
42861906
Part 1 Greek literature: Oliver Taplin, Greek hexameter poetry; Leslie Kurke, archaic poetry (down to the New Music); Andrea Nightingale, ideas, science, and "Philosophy" (down to the beginnings of the Hellenistic Schools); Peter Wilson, Fifth Century drama; Leslie Kurke, Herodotus and Thucydides; Christopher Carey, rhetoric; Jane Lightfoot, Alexander to actium; Jane Lightfoot, Greek literature under the Romans. Part 2 Latin Literature: Matthew Leigh, Latin literature before 70 BC; Christina Krauss, oratory and history down to Augustus; Llewelyn Morgan, poetry of the Late republic; Llewelyn Morgan, poetry c.40 BC to c.19 BC; Philip Hardie, poetry from c.19 BC to the death of Tiberius; Matthew Leigh, Imperial epic; Catherine Connors, Imperial poetry and satire down to c.150 AD; Christina Kraus, Imperial prose; Michael Dewar, Latin literature after c.150.