In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet
comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the
Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He
covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing
of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic
writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, providing a
vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in
translation. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their
readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship
of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed
interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in
the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many
different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them.
This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting
developments.
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ISBN
9781472521323
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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