The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism Tapa dura - 1999

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Copy - First Edition First Printing With All Numbers 1 Through To 10 - Ex University Library Copy With Usual Stamps And Marks. No Other Signatures Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. No Illustrations. Blue Cloth Hard Cover With Gold Gilt Titled Spine - Library Coding Ticket Removal Mark/Damage To Foot Of Spine Otherwise Very Faint Wear Overall..

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. IX,326p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. ?Too?s first chapters proffers a reading of Hesiod and Aristophanes, focusing on the Hesiodic king?s judicial role in civl cases. (?) In Chapters 2 and 3, Too examines Plato?s ?Republic? and Aristotle?s ?Poetics? and the extensive connections between them. (?) Chapter 4, an especially valuable portion of the book, turns to Alexandria - a crucial site for Too?s analysis because of the work of canonization (especially under Aristophanes and Aristarchus) that occurred there. Too shows ingeniously how Vitruvius? wonderful story of Aristophanes? selections as head librarian mirrors the Contest of Hesiod and Homer. (?) Chapter 4 also reminds us of how deep are the roots of both orientalism and our fascination with Greek culture. (?) Turning now to Rome, chapter 5 looks ar Augustan and early imperial Roman writers, in such a way as to sketch a continuum from archaic Greece to the Roman period. (?) In chapter… Leer más

Clarendon Press. Used - Very Good. 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Faded sticker on rear jacket panel. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Rome).

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1998 0198150768. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998. 8°. IX, 326 S., Pappband (gut erhalten)

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