Editor/Author
Gutzwiller, Kathryn
Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$125.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$188.93
ISBN: 978-0-631-23321-3
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count:
14
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. - A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC - Provides overviews of the social, political, intellectual and literary historical contexts in which Hellenistic literature was produced - Introduces the major writers and genres of the period - Provides information about style, meter and languages to aid readers with no prior knowledge of the language in understanding technical aspects of literary Greek - Distinctive in its coverage of current issues in Hellenistic criticism, including audience reception, the political and social background, and Hellenistic theories of literature