The Greeks and their legacy : prose literature, history, society, transmission, influence
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The Greeks and their legacy : prose literature, history, society, transmission, influence
（Collected papers / K.J. Dover, v. 2）
B. Blackwell, 1988
Available at 25 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
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Description
This work continues and completes the collection of Sir Kenneth Dover's contributions to Greek studies by bringing together articles on: Greek prose literature and history; the transmission of Greek texts in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; and the contribution of Greeks to British culture.
Table of Contents
- Ion of Chios - his place in the history of Greek literature
- the chronology of the Antiphon speeches
- two problems in the text of Antiphon
- the originality of the first Greek historians
- anecdotes, gossip and scandal
- Thucydides "as history" and "as literature'
- Thucydides on oracles
- Thucydides' historical judgment
- Androtion on Ostracism
- the date of Plato's "Symposium"
- Aristophanes' speech in Plato's "Symposium"
- Greek homosexuality and initiation
- the freedom of the intellectual in Greek society
- Anthemokritos and the Megarians
- Anapsephisis in Fifth-century Athens
- review of Peter Green - "Armada from Athens"
- ancient interpolation in Aristophanes
- explorations in the history of the text of Aristophanes
- review of D. Mervyn Jones and N.G.Wilson (editors) "Scholia in Aristophanis Equites"
- expurgation of Greek literature
- Byron on the Ancient Greeks
- on writing for the general reader
- what are the "two cultures"?
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