Status
Available
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Publication
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pages
1148
Description
Covers ancient Greek and Roman writers of the classical period. Entries include biographical information, as well as discussion of the themes and styles of major works.
Description
This two-volume survey of western literature in the classical period contains 47 chronologically arranged essays.
Table of Contents:
vol. 1. Homer -- Hesiod -- Greek lyric poets -- Aeschylus -- Pindar -- Sophocles -- Herodotus -- Euripides -- Thucydides -- Aristophanes -- Isocrates -- Xenophon -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Demosthenes -- Menander -- Hellenistic poetry at Alexandria -- Theocritus -- Plautus -- Polybius -- Terence -- Cicero -- Caesar -- vol. 2. Lucretius -- Sallust -- Catullus -- Vergil -- Horace -- Livy -- Tibullus and Propertius -- Ovid -- Seneca the Younger -- Petronius -- Persius and Juvenal -- Josephus -- Martial -- Lucan and Statius -- Quintilian -- Plutarch -- Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius -- Tacitus -- Pliny the Younger -- Suetonius -- Longinus -- Lucian -- Apuleius -- Ammianus Marcellinus.
Table of Contents:
vol. 1. Homer -- Hesiod -- Greek lyric poets -- Aeschylus -- Pindar -- Sophocles -- Herodotus -- Euripides -- Thucydides -- Aristophanes -- Isocrates -- Xenophon -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Demosthenes -- Menander -- Hellenistic poetry at Alexandria -- Theocritus -- Plautus -- Polybius -- Terence -- Cicero -- Caesar -- vol. 2. Lucretius -- Sallust -- Catullus -- Vergil -- Horace -- Livy -- Tibullus and Propertius -- Ovid -- Seneca the Younger -- Petronius -- Persius and Juvenal -- Josephus -- Martial -- Lucan and Statius -- Quintilian -- Plutarch -- Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius -- Tacitus -- Pliny the Younger -- Suetonius -- Longinus -- Lucian -- Apuleius -- Ammianus Marcellinus.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
1148 p.; 11.25 inches
ISBN
0684165953 / 9780684165950
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Call number
FIC A1