Early Greek poetry and philosophy
Subtitle: a history of Greek epic, lyric, and prose to the middle of the fifth century
By: [by] Hermann Fränkel. Translated by Moses Hadas and James Willis.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 555
Subjects: Greek literature -- History and criticism; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums.
Table of contents: title: Early Greek literature : survival and ostensible origin -- Homer. The singers and their epics -- Language, verse, style -- The material -- Gods and powers -- Gods and men -- Homeric man -- The new mood of the Odyssey and the end of epic -- Hesiod. The poet -- Theogony -- The Ehoiai and the post-Hesiodic shield -- Works and days -- Ancient lyric. The founder : Archilochus -- Military and political elegy : Callinus and Tyrtaeus -- Alcman’s choral lyric -- The lyric of Lesbos -- The lonian middle classes -- Solon the Athenian -- Period of crisis, religious literature and philosophy -- The crisis of belles-lettres : the seven sages; Aristeas and Pherecydes -- The Homeric hymns -- Pure philosophy : Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes and Pythagoras -- The new school of lyrists. Ibycus (and Stesichorus in retrospect) -- Anacreon -- Simonides -- Philosophy and empirical science at the end of the archaic period -- Xenophanes -- The beginnings of the empirical sciences : medicine, geography and history -- Parmenides -- Heraclitus -- The last of archaic lyric. Poetry of the transitional period -- Theognis -- Pindar and Bacchylides -- Retrospect and prospect.