Under the Roman Empire Greek literature experienced a renaissance. This flowering of interest in the Classics was in part a revival of the traditional culture associated with the glorious past and in part a development of new forms such as the novel, the classical lecture and the erotic letter. This literature has traditionally been considerably underrated and the essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies were collected in an attempt to draw attention to the literary excellence of some undeservedly neglected ...
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Under the Roman Empire Greek literature experienced a renaissance. This flowering of interest in the Classics was in part a revival of the traditional culture associated with the glorious past and in part a development of new forms such as the novel, the classical lecture and the erotic letter. This literature has traditionally been considerably underrated and the essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies were collected in an attempt to draw attention to the literary excellence of some undeservedly neglected authors and to inspire more readers to take them seriously. As the editors say in their introduction: 'nowadays we look to papyrology for ocasional revelations of exciting new pieces of ancient literature, but there are masterpieces already on the shelves waiting to be noticed'. This book will be of interest to students of Greek literature and ancient hsitory, especially to those concerned with post-Hellenistic Greek culture.
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Very Good-in Very Good dust jacket. 0521239478. Light rippling to edges of about 10 pages [moisture? ]. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Edgewear with minor chipping along top edge of DJ.; Theme, structure and narrative in Chariton B. P. Reardon; The importance of sophists By E. L. Bowie; Lucian: a sophist's sophist By Graham Anderson; The mendacity of Kalasiris and the narrative strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika By John J. Winkler; The Emperor Julian on his predecessors By G. W. Bowersock; Greek translations of Latin literature in the fourth century A. D. By Elizabeth Fisher; The empress and the poet: paganism and politics at the court of Theodosius II By Alan Cameron; Pastiche, pleasantry, prudish eroticism: the letters of ‘Aristaenetus' By W. Geoffrey Arnott; The date and purpose of the Philopatris By Barry Baldwin; Yale Classical Studies Volume XXVII; 344 pages; During the 1980s papyrology celebrates its centenary as a branch of classical studies. Today's state of the art is reflected in the volume's contents which include editions and reeditions of texts, and papers in the many areas of classical antiquity in which our knowledge has been so immeasurably enriched by the discovery and decipherment of Greek and Latin papyri, viz. Language, government, social and economic history, law, private life. Some of the papers also have interdisciplinary ramifications, and the international cooperation that has characterised papyrology from its inception is here readily apparent in the names, languages and affiliations of the contributors.
