Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. - TAPLIN, O., (ed.),
A New Perspective
KORTE INHOUD
'The project is aimed at at wide audience, and I have rarely seen an introduction to the whole field of Classical literature at this level of clarity and intensity. (...) Almost every part of the collection offers a number of formulations which are not simply bien trouvé or epigrammatic but also inspiring and inviting to further reflection. (...) In sum, the success of the book is based both on the quality of the individual contributors and on the intelligent planning of the whole. Some of the authors should be congratulated for writing with originality and independence about gigantic figures (e.g. A. Wilson Nightingale, who introduces Greek wisdom traditions from the origins to the beginnings of Hellenistic philosophy), others have been nothing short of heroic in covering a huge and unforgiving landscape of texts (J. Lightfoot, less than 70 pages on everything written in Greek from Menander to Nonnos; M. Dewar, from the age of Apuleius to the fall of the Empire). Other chapters, based on a coherent genre and...
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2000Uitgever: Oxford University Press612 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0192100203ISBN-13: 9780192100207Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Oxford, 2000. XV,596p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original dark blue hard cover. Spine gilt titled. Spine slightly bumped. Signature on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: TAPLIN, O., (ed.),] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds.]
