Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus

by Stephen Halliwell

Book Overview

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the most defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' Treatises, Philodemus' On Poems,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199570566
• ISBN13: 9780199570560
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"