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A history of classical Greek literature (Volume I) The Poets

A history of classical Greek literature (Volume I) The Poets

P. Mahaffy, J.

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9353707730
ISBN13: 9789353707736
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How did the Greeks learn to sing their world into being? In Volume I of A history of classical Greek literature, J. P. Mahaffy traces the poets who shaped the literature of ancient Greece from the first heroic lays to the stage. Poetry made a civilisation speak. With a storyteller's pace and a scholar's eye, he offers a classical literature history that reads as both panorama and close reading, moving through ancient Greek epic and lyric, and the emergence of drama in archaic and classical Greece. Mahaffy blends history of Greek poetry with incisive ancient Greek literary criticism: what Homeric poetry achieves, how Hesiod and Homer scholarship reframes myth and labour, and why the tragedians still define moral argument in public. His Greek tragedy poets analysis sets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in their cultural moment without losing the thrill of their language and ideas. The result is a scholarly classics reference guide that also welcomes the curious browser: clear judgments, memorable connections, and a sense of the living tradition behind later European writing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this landmark of classical studies is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure -- it belongs on the shelves of classic-literature collectors, and it stands equally well as a classics students study guide or college classical studies textbook for readers returning to the roots of Western poetry, for anyone seeking a lucid map of origins.

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