Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds : A New Perspective Book

	Preface	vii
	List of Illustrations	ix
	List of Maps	xi
	Notes on Contributors	xii
	Timeline of Chapters	xiv
	Introduction	1
	Greek Literature
1	The spring of the muses: Homer and related poetry	22
2	The strangeness of 'song culture': Archaic Greek poetry	58
3	Powers of horror and laughter: The great age of drama	88
4	Charting the poles of history: Herodotos and Thoukydides	133
5	Sages, sophists, and philosophers: Greek wisdom literature	156
6	Observers of speeches and hearers of action: The Athenian orators	192
7	Sophisticates and solecisms: Greek literature after the classical period	217
8	Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans: Later Greek literature	257
	Latin Literature
9	Primitivism and power: The beginnings of Latin literature	288
10	Forging a national identity: Prose literature down to the time of Augustus	311
11	Escapes from orthodoxy: Poetry of the late Republic	336
12	Creativity out of chaos: Poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil	359
13	Coming to terms with the Empire: Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period	403
14	The path between truculence and servility: Prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian	438
15	Oblique politics: Epic of the imperial period	468
16	Imperial space and time: The literature of leisure	492
17	Culture wars: Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era	519
	Further Reading	547
	Chronology	563
	Acknowledgements	573
	Index	575