The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental & African Literature

Includes information on the literature of Greece from Homer to the fall of Constantinople, Roman literature prior to A.D. 476, and Oriental literature and African literature of ancient and present times.

The editors have chosen more than forty specialist contributors to join this encyclopedic review of literary figures in classical, oriental and African literature. The entries, arranged in alphabetical order for each genre, are usually a paragraph or two with recommendations for further reading.