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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

Volume 1: Greek Literature, Part 3
P. E. Easterling
Bernard M. W. Knox
May 1989
1. Greek Literature
3. Philosophy, History and Oratory
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    This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'Literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes.

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    May 1989
    Paperback
    9780521359832
    232 pages
    229 × 152 × 13 mm
    0.377kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Abbreviations
    • Editorial note
    • 1. Early Greek philosophy A. A. Long
    • 2. Historiography Henry R. Immerwahr and W. R. Connor
    • 3. Sophists and physicians of the Greek enlightenment George A. Kennedy
    • 4. Plato and the Socratic work of Xenophon F. H. Sandbach
    • 5. Oratory George A. Kennedy
    • 6. Aristotle A. A. Long
    • 7. Post-Aristotelian philosophy A. A. Long
    • Appendix Martin Drury
    • Works cited Martin Drury
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • A. A. Long, Henry R. Immerwahr, W. R. Connor, George A. Kennedy, F. H. Sandbach, Martin Drury

    • Editors
    • P. E. Easterling
    • Bernard M. W. Knox