I. Portrait of epoches. 1. A kingdom that stood for the world -- 2. A world of cultural diversity -- 3. A monarchical order in transition -- 4. A kingdom in motion -- II. Poetry 1. Epic Poetry -- 2. Didactic poetry -- 3. Elegiac, lyrical and mimic poetry -- 4. Hymnodic and other religious poetry -- 5. Orphic poetry -- 6. Epigram -- III. Philosophy. 1. Introduction -- 2. Stoa -- 3. Epicureanism -- 4. Cynicism -- 5. Skepticism -- 6. Aristotelianism -- 7. Middle Platonism -- 8. Pythagoreanism -- 9. Neoplatonism -- IV. Specialist literature. 1. Mathematics -- 2. Astronomy and cosmology -- 3. Geographical literature -- 4. Grammar and philology -- 5. Literary theory, literary criticism and poetics -- 6. Art literature -- 7. Music -- 8. Biological literature -- 9. Medical literature -- 10. Interpretation of dreams: Artemidoros von Daldis -- 11. Military system -- 12. Ancient agriculture from the beginnings to the Geoponica (10th century) -- 13. Mythography -- 14. Corpus Iuris Civilis -- V. Historiography. 1. Genre -- 2. History of the early imperial period -- 3. History of the high imperial period -- 4. From the end of the imperial crisis to the division of the empire (4th century AD) -- 5. From the division of the empire to the time of Justinian (5th century and first half of the 6th century) -- VI . Biography and autobiography. 1. Main features of the genre in the imperial period -- 2. Biography of the imperial period -- 3. Authors -- 4. Autobiography -- VII. Prosaliterature. 1. Imperial rhetoric and eloquence -- 2. Epistolography -- 3. Lucian -- 4. The Greek novel -- 5. Colored writing (poikilography) -- 6. Philogelos -- VIII. Fable. 1. Genre -- 2. The Hellenistic Fable Review Demetrios of Phaleron -- 3. Imperial prose fable books -- 4. The Mythiamben of Babrios -- 5. Reception: rhetoric, school, Oikumene -- IX. Dramatic form. 1. Introduction -- 2. Tragedy and comedy -- 3. Mimos -- 4. Pantomimos -- 5. Outlook.
Summary:
With this long-awaited volume of the handbook of Greek literary history, pagan literature from the days of Augustus to late antiquity in the 5th and 6th centuries is comprehensively made accessible for the first time based on the current state of research. An introductory portrait of a period is followed by a large overview of poetry, philosophy, specialist literature, historiography, biography/autobiography, prose literature, fables and dramatic forms. As in the two present volumesof the Handbook of Greek Literature of Antiquity, the individual authors are classified in terms of literary history, the content of their works is reproduced and their transmission and reception history is presented. Of course, with a view to the poetic forms and the beautiful literature, literary questions are in the foreground. What is special, however, is that philosophical literature and the large area of specialist literature are also examined under the question of how the authors designed their writings in literary terms.--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft ; 7. Abteilung, 3. Band, 1. Teil Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike ; 3. Band, 1. Teil
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