Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: A Guide To Hellenistic Literature
Author(s): Gutzwiller Kathryn (University Of Cincinatti)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780631233220
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2007
Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval