The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory

P. E. Easterling (Edited by), Bernard M. W. Knox (Edited by)

9780521359832, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 May 1989

232 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.377 kg

"...a mighty achievement, bringing together the work of nineteen of the finest scholars in the field to produce a single volume...It will surely not be superceded in this century, and probably never will..." The New York Review of Books

This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world would not be considered 'Literary', the ancients made a less sharp distinction between intellectual and artistic production, and the authors included in this volume are some of Europe's most powerful stylists: Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes.

Abbreviations
Editorial note
1. Early Greek philosophy A. A. Long
2. Historiography Henry R. Immerwahr and W. R. Connor
3. Sophists and physicians of the Greek enlightenment George A. Kennedy
4. Plato and the Socratic work of Xenophon F. H. Sandbach
5. Oratory George A. Kennedy
6. Aristotle A. A. Long
7. Post-Aristotelian philosophy A. A. Long
Appendix Martin Drury
Works cited Martin Drury
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literary essays [DNF]