Providing a continuous account of the whole of Greek literature in one volume, this book gives summaries of the works dealt with, and accounts of scholarly controversy on the more hotly debated points. First published in German in 1958, this book was translated from the rewritten 1963 edition.
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He takes it from the Homeric beginnings through the 'archaic' era and the great flowering of the dramatists, philosophers, and historians, on past the Hellenistic age (including Jewish religious and historical productions), down to the Empire period of Plutarch, Galen, and the Stoics. . . . a masterwork, translated (from the second German edition) into beautiful and stimulating English. -- Saturday Review
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This book is not only an education about the whole history of Greek literature, it sets the standard for how to write such a book. Lesky is a philologist in the best German tradition. He sifts the arguments of the various key philologists as he goes through the problems along with the history. The history is superb from Homer through Hellenistic times. Lesky purposefully scants the Empire, the Roman Empire, that is, as well as Greek patristic literature. Also, a new version of this book has just come out in German as of 1998. I'm not a classical scholar, but it would be difficult to imagine any other book coming up to this book in covering this terrain. It makes other books look amateurish by comparison. I read this book this summer and am now rereading it.
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useful book, but old,
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This review is from: History of Greek Literature (Paperback)
As a graduate student preparing for my literature exam, this book is very useful to me. It is comprehensive in its approach. The main draw back, though, is that the information in it is several decades old, and I will need to look elsewhere for more up-to-date scholarship and perspectives.
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