Cambridge History of Classical Literature Part 1, Early Greek Poetry

This volume covers the epic tradition, the didactic poems of Hesiod and his imitators, and the wide-ranging work of the iambic, elegiac and lyric poets of what is loosely called the archaic age. The contributors make use of recent papyrus finds to fill out the picture of a cosmopolitan and highly sophisticated literary culture which had not yet found its intellectual centre in Athens.Easterling, P. E. is the author of 'Cambridge History of Classical Literature Part 1, Early Greek Poetry' with ISBN 9780521359818 and ISBN 0521359813.