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An Anthology of Greek Prose D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)

An Anthology of Greek Prose By D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)

An Anthology of Greek Prose by D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)

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Designed to benefit students and tutors of the ancient Greek language and literature, this anthology contains over 50 short extracts of the major Greek prose writers from the 5th century BC through to the 4th century AD.

An Anthology of Greek Prose Summary

An Anthology of Greek Prose by D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)

BL With Greek texts and English commentary This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form, undergraduate, or junior graduate level - the opportunity of sampling a very wide variety of Greek prose texts, chosen to illustrate both development and generic differences. Each of the 100 passages is accompanied by a short introduction, and there are brief notes explaining difficult words and drawing attention to linguistic and stylistic points occurring in the extracts. Full references to grammars are given, and the texts are supplemented with a useful general introduction as well as indexes of words and of grammatical and stylistic features. The extracts cover the entire range from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD: Herodotus, Thucydides, and other historians; orators from Andocides to Demosthenes; philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle; and many writers from the Hellenistic and Roman periods (including some biblical and other Greek Christian texts). Care has been taken to choose pieces of interesting content, so that the book can serve as a reader to stimulate interest in Greek culture generally. A companion volume edited by D. A. Russell, An Anthology of Latin Prose, is also available: 0-19-814746-5, hardback; 0-19-87212-8 paper covers.

An Anthology of Greek Prose Reviews

A splendid survey of Greek Prose literature, with an excellent introduction, bibliography and helpful notes. * C Austin, University of Cambridge *
it could serve as an excellent and - at least in paperback - affordable text for a beginning graduate survey or even for a mixed class of graduates and advanced undergraduates ... All will come away with an increased awareness of style and an appreciation of the continuing vitality of ancient Greek prose in the frequently neglected Roman period. * Thomas A. Suits, University of Connecticut, New England Classical Newsletter & Journal, Volume XIX, May 1992, Number 4 *
provides just the right amount of chronology, biography and literary history ... This collection will be welcomed wholeheartedly by those who wish to develop their skills in Greek translation, in that it offers them timely encouragement and guidance for the exploration of varied and unfamiliar territory. The proof-reading of both Greek and English text is of a high order. * S. Usher, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, The Classical Review *

Table of Contents

The beginings - Ionic prose; the beginnings - Attic prose; Attic orators - Lysias and Isocrates; Plato; Xenophon and a contemporary soldier; the age of Philip - Demosthenes and some contemporaries; philosophy - Aristotle to Epicurus; Hellenistic prose; from Augustus to Trajan; Plutarch; the second century AD; biblical and early Christian texts; pagan and Christian in the late Empire.

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CIN0198721226VG
9780198721222
0198721226
An Anthology of Greek Prose by D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)
D. A. Russell (Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)
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Oxford University Press
1991-07-11
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