Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

ISBN-13: 9781108481472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 902 str.

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Opis

A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

Recenzje

'This volume is an amazing achievement, a commanding synthesis, a vast compendium of pages, an argument that demands to be contested. Every Classicist should read it.' Jaś Elsner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; General introduction; Part I. Canon: 1. Canon: the evidence; 2. Canon in practice: the polis of letters; Part II. Space: 3. Space, the setting: the making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean; 4. Space in action: when worlds diverge; Part III. Scale: 5. A quantitative model of ancient literary culture; 6. Scale in action: stability and its end; Coda to the book; Bibliography; Index.