search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Literature in the Greek and Roman World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
List of Illustrations
ix
List of Maps
xi
Notes on Contributors
xii
Timeline of Chapters
xiv
Introduction
1
21
Oliver Taplin
GREEK LITERATURE
The spring of the muses: Homer and related poetry
22
36
Oliver Taplin
The strangeness of `song culture': Archaic Greek poetry
58
30
Leslie Kurke
Powers of horror and laughter: The great age of drama
88
45
Peter Wilson
Charting the poles of history: Herodotos and Thoukydides
133
23
Leslie Kurke
Sages, sophists, and philosophers: Greek wisdom literature
156
36
Andrea Wilson Nightingale
Observers of speeches and hearers of action: The Athenian orators
192
25
Chris Carey
Sophisticates and solecisms: Greek literature after the classical period
217
40
Jane L. Lightfoot
Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans: Later Greek literature
257
31
Jane L. Lightfoot
LATIN LITERATURE
Primitivism and power: The beginnings of Latin literature
288
23
Matthew Leigh
Forging a national identity: Prose literature down to the time of Augustus
311
25
Christina S. Kraus
Escapes from orthodoxy: Poetry of the late Republic
336
23
Llewelyn Morgan
Creativity out of chaos: Poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil
359
44
Llewelyn Morgan
Coming to terms with the Empire: Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period
403
35
Philip Hardie
The path between truculence and servility: Prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian
438
30
Christina S. Kraus
Oblique politics: Epic of the imperial period
468
24
Matthew Leigh
Imperial space and time: The literature of leisure
492
27
Catherine Connors
Culture wars: Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era
519
28
Michael Dewar
Further Reading
547
16
Chronology
563
10
Acknowledgements
573
2
Index
575