ENGLISH

Antonine Literature

By Donald Andrew Russell

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780198140573, 0198140576
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3488038 bytes)
Pages
\256
Time added
2021-10-29 17:28:37

Description

This volume gathers together for the first time essays on the intellectual and literary world of both the Greek and Latin Antonines. The contributors provide a broad range of topics including Plutarch's Lives (C.B.R. Pelling), Lucian's Prologues (H.-G. Nesselrath), Aristides' Hymns (D.A. Russell), Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche (E.J. Kenney), Greek poetry of the period (E.L. Bowie), the definition of the Second Sophistic (G. Anderson), and the influence of Plato's Phaedrus (M.B. Trapp). Russell also provides an introductory essay addressing the relationship between the two literary languages, and a full bibliography and table of dates. Greek and Latin in Antonine literature, D.A.Russell; truth and fiction in Plutarch's "Lives", C.B.R.Pelling; Greek poetry in the Antonine age, E.L.Bowie; some problems of perspective, G.Anderson; Lucian's introductions, H.G.Nesselrath; Plato's "Phaedrus" in the second century, M.B.Trapp; Psyche and her mysterious husband, E.J.Kenney; Aristides and the prose hymn, D.A.Russell.

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