Critical Moments in Classical Literature
Subtitle: Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780511727177
Description: A series of innovative critical readings exploring how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Aristophanes' Frogs and the critical tradition; Chapter 2 Readings of Homer: Euripides' Cyclops; Chapter 3 Comic moments; Chapter 4 The ugly peasant and the naked virgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation; Chapter 5 The grand and the less grand: 'Longinus', On the Sublime; Chapter 6 Reading for life: Plutarch, 'How the young man should study poetry'; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; General index.