Solon and Early Greek Poetry
Subtitle: The Politics of Exhortation (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521851787
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry texts & anthologies; To 500; Literary Criticism; Greece; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Political poetry, Greek; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Poetry; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Elegiac poetry, Greek; Ancient and Classical; History; History and criticism; Politics and literature
First sentence: In the late sixth century, Heraclitus could call Hesiod 'the teacher of most men' (, 57 DK).