From Homer to Theocritus

A Manual of Greek Literature

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Edward Capps

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1901. Capps, Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago writes in the Preface: this volume aims to present a concise but complete survey of the Greek literature of the classical period, extended so as to include the two branches of poetry, the New Comedy and the Idyll, which were brought to perfection after the overthrow of Greek liberty by Alexander. The contents are: Epic Poetry - Introduction to the Iliad; The Main Action of the Iliad; The Odyssey. Homer and Troy; The Homeric Hymns and Hesiod; The Elegiac, Iambic, and Melic Poets; Choral Lyric. Pindar; Tragic Poetry - Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Comic Poetry - Aristophanes; The Historians. Herodotus; Thucydides and Xenophon; The Orators - Demosthenes; Philosophical Prose - Plato; Aristotle; The Lost Writers of the Fourth Century; and Theocritus and His Age.

Release date NZ

June 23rd, 2005

Author

Edward Capps

Audience

Undergraduate

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Kessinger Publishing Co

Pages

504

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing Co

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9781417911394

Product ID

2253940

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