Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781118782903
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 576


Description:
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