Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period

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Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
Author : Neil Hopkinson
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 22 September 1994
ISBN : 0521423139
Pages : 240 pages
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This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.

Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period

Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period by Neil Hopkinson

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