Review
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
Product Description
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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