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Critical Moments in Classical Literature - Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses (Paperback)
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Critical Moments in Classical Literature - Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses (Paperback)
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Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter
builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of
literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular
attention to the interplay of criticism and creativity by not
treating criticism in isolation from the works which the critics
discussed. Attention is given both to the development of a history
of criticism, as far as our sources allow, and to the constant
recurrence of similar themes across the centuries. At the head of
the book stands the contest of Aeschylus and Euripides in
Aristophanes' Frogs which foreshadows more of the subsequent
critical tradition than is often realised. Other chapters are
devoted to ancient reflection on Greek and Roman comedy, to the
Augustan critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus, to 'Longinus', On the
Sublime, and to Plutarch. All Greek and Latin is translated.
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