Synopses & Reviews
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.
Review
"...a mighty achievement, bringing together the work of nineteen of the finest scholars in the field to produce a single volume...It will surely not be superceded in this century, and probably never will..." The New York Review of Books
Table of Contents
List of plates, Abbreviations, Editorial note; 1. Tragedy R. P. Winnington-Ingram, John Gould, P. E. Easterling, and B. M. W. Knox; 2. The satyr play Dana F. Sutton; 3. Comedy E. W. Handley; Appendix of authors and works cited Martin Drury; Metrical appendix Martin Drury; Index.