Table of Contents

Preface Archaic Literature 1. The Beginnings and Early Epic Poetry 2. The Earliest Non-epic Poetry 3. Early Prose 4. Late Archaic Poetry 5. Philosophy and Science Classical Literature of the Fifth Century B.C. 6. Aeschylus and the Beginnings of Tragedy 7. Sophocles and Euripides 8. Old Comedy 9. Philosophy, Rhetoric and Science 10. Herodotus and Thucydides Classical Literature of the Fourth Century B.C. 11. Socrates and Socratic Literature 12. Plato, Aristotle and their Schools 13. Rhetoric 14. Entertainment Literature, Factual Literature and Historiography 15. Poetry Hellenistic Literature 16. Hellenism and its Philosophy 17. Dramatic Poetry 18. Callimachus and Lyric Poetry 19. Apollonius Rhodius and Epic Poetry 20. Theocritus and Pastoral Poetry 21. The Epigram 22. Specialist Prose and Rhetoric 23. Historiography and Geography 24. Entertainment Literature 25. Jewish Literature Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Albrecht Dihle

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