The Poets of Alexandria

by Susan A. Stephens

Book Overview

Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848858809
• ISBN13: 9781848858800
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"