The Origins of Criticism
Subtitle: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691120256
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Hellenic languages; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Poetry; Ancient and Classical; Classics; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Greek literature; Literature; Theory, etc
First sentence: OF THE many social contexts in which archaic Greece worked out its functionalist poetics, one of the oldest and arguably the most influential was the symposium, a form of drinking and singing together that evolved in the course of the archaic age.