A Companion to Hellenistic Literature by Clauss, James J.

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781118782903)

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A Companion to Hellenistic Literature by Clauss, James J.

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature

$59.95
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature by Clauss, James J.

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature

$59.95
Format: Paperback
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Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature in 30 newly commissioned essays explores the social and intellectual contexts of literature production in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature.
  • Provides a wide ranging critical examination of Hellenistic literature, including the works of well-respected poets alongside lesser-known historical, philosophical, and scientific prose of the period
  • Explores how the indigenous literatures of Hellenized lands influenced Greek literature and how Greek literature influenced Jewish, Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Roman literary works


Author: James J. Clauss
ISBN-10: 1118782909
ISBN-13: 9781118782903
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.10d
By James J. Clauss
By James J. Clauss
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James J. Clauss is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book 1 of Apollonius' Argonautica (1993) and the co-editor of Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art (with S. I. Johnston, 1997).

Martine Cuypers is Lecturer in Greek at Trinity College Dublin. She is the co-editor of Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius and the Argonautic Tradition (with M. A. Harder, 2005).

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