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1st Edition

Classical Literature An Introduction

Edited By Neil Croally, Roy Hyde Copyright 2011
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge
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Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia. The literature is put in historical context, and the material is organized chronologically, but also... Read more

1. Introductions  2. Homer  3. From Homer to Tragedy  4. The Drama of Classical Athens  5. Historical Writing in the Classical Era (and beyond)  6. Rhetorical and Philosophical Writing  7. Alexandria and Beyond  8. Rome: The Early Republic  9. The Late Republic  10. The Augustan Age  11. The Early Empire  12. Greece and Rome Come Together: Later Literature

Biography

Neil Croally is Head of Classics at Dulwich College, and has been a Principal Examiner and reviser for Ancient History A-level. Previous publications include Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the function of tragedy (1994), and ‘Tragedy’s teaching’ in The Blackwell’s Companion to Greek Tragedy (ed. Justina Gregory; 2005).　

Roy Hyde was Head of Classics at University College School, Hampstead for twenty years, and has served as Chief Examiner for both Greek and Latin at A-level for many years. He has published Latin Unseen Translations (2002).　

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