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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the sophistication of this pastoral romance, a sophistication which he maintains has often been assumed but never properly discussed. Evidence for the identity of the author and the date of composition are also considered.

Love stories, Greek --- Daphnis (Greek mythology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Longus --- Daphnis (Greek mythology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Longus. --- 875-3 --- -875-3 Griekse literatuur: proza --- Griekse literatuur: proza --- Greek romance fiction --- Greek fiction --- Longos --- Daphnis (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- 875-3 Griekse literatuur: proza --- Daphnis --- In literature. --- Love stories, Greek - History and criticism --- Longus. - Daphnis and Chloe --- Romance fiction, Greek --- Dafni --- Dafnis --- Dafno --- Daphnisz --- Δάφνις --- Дафнис --- Дафніс --- דפניס --- Daphnis (Greek mythology)--in literature. --- Romance-language fiction, Greek

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This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not so much on explicit critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and used from the earliest period of reception onwards. Other chapters consider Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides, in the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, in the Aesopic tradition, and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and Lucian; there is also a groundbreaking study of Plutarch's extensive commentary on the Works and Days and an account of ancient ideas of Hesiod's linguistic style. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod's remarkable poem and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.

Greek literature --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Plutarch. --- Plutarco --- Plutarque --- Ploutarchos --- Ploetarchos --- Plutarch --- Plutarchus --- Plutarkh --- Plutarkhus --- Plutarchus, --- Plutarch, --- Blūtārkhūs --- Плутарх --- Плутах --- Plutarh --- פלוטארכוס --- پلوتارخ --- Πλούταρχος, --- Pseudo-Plutarch --- Plutarkhosz --- Plutarchus Chaeronensis --- Greek literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- POETRY --- Rezeption. --- Poetry. --- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- Hesiodus, --- Works and days (Hesiod).

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Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical approaches to Homer, Homer in the satires of Plutarch and Lucian, and how Homer shaped ideas about the power of music and song. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of the dominant literary force in Greek culture and of the Greek literary engagement with the past. Through the study of their influence and reception, this book also sheds rich light on the Homeric poems themselves. All Greek and Latin are translated.

Antike. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Rezeption. --- Homer --- Homer. --- Homerus, --- Influence. --- Iliad (Homer). --- Odyssey (Homer). --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homère --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Homerus. --- E-books --- Homerus

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In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer, and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated.

Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Jason (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Medea (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Heroes --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- History and criticism. --- Mythology --- Apollonius, --- Medea, --- Jason --- In literature. --- Chasón --- Giasone --- Giasuni --- Iasōn --- Iasonas --- Iaszón --- Jasonas --- Jāsons --- Jasão --- Jaysun --- Jazon --- Jazono --- Xasón --- Yason --- Yī ā sòng --- 伊阿宋 --- イアーソーン --- יאסון --- 이아손 --- Язон --- Ясон --- Јасон --- Ἰάσων --- Ιάσονας --- جاسون --- Μήδεια, --- Mēdeia,