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CLASSICAL LITERATURE
General Editors
P. E. EASTERLING
Regius Professor ofGnck in the Unnmny ofCambridge
E. J. KENNEY
Emeritus Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge
Advisory Editors
B. M. W. KNOX
Formerly Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington
W. V. CLAUSEN
Formerly Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
CLASSICAL LITERATURE
i
GREEK LITERATURE
Edited by
P.E.EASTERLING
Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
and
B.M.W.KNOX
Formerly Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington
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CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
3 Theognis I36
4 Solon 146
by B. M. W. KNOX
5 Semonides j 53
by P. E. EASTERLING
6 Hipponax 158
by B. M. W. KNOX
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CONTENTS
2 Tragedy in performance 163
by JOHN GOULD, Professor of Greek, University of Bristol
3 Aeschylus 281
by R. P. WlNNINGTON-lNGRAM
4 Sophocles 295
by P. E. EASTERLING
5 Euripides 316
6 Minor tragedians 339
by B. M. W. KNOX
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CONTENTS
16 Oratory 498
by GEORGE A. KENNEDY
1 The beginnings of literary oratory 498
2 Oratory in the fourth century 50J
17 Aristotle 527
by A. A. LONG
1 His life and writings 527
2 Rhetoric 533
3 Poetics 534
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CONTENTS
2Poetry 649
Poetic miniatures 649
The hexameter poems ascribed to Oppian
3 Philostratus and the Second Sophistic <$$5
Aelius Arisudes 658
4 Science and superstition 662
Galen 661
Artemidorus 663
by G. W. BOWERSOCK
5 Between philosophy and rhetoric 665
Plutarch 665
by G. W. BOWERSOCK
Dio of Prusa 669
Maximus 672
Lucian 673
Alciphron <>79
Aelian 680
Athenaeus 682
by E. L. BOWIE, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
6 The Greek novel 683
The genre 683
The surviving texts 688
by E. L. BOWIE
7 The fable 699
b y P. E. EASTERLING
8 Historical writing o f the High Empire 703
Arrian 703
Appian 707
b y E. L. B O W I E
Pausanias 709
Cassius D i o and Herodian 710
b y G. W . BOWERSOCK
21 Epilogue 7'4
b y B. M. W . K N O X
Appendix o f authors and works 719
edited b y MARTIN D R U R Y
Metrical appendix 893
by MARTIN DRURY
Works cited in the text 900
Index 919
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PLATES
{between pages 272 and 273)
la Boy reading from a papyrus roll. Fragment of a red-figure cup by the
Akestorides Painter, about 460 B.C. Greenwich, Connecticut. Walter
Bareiss 63. Photo: Courtesy of Alexander Cambitoglou.
Ib Girl reading. Marble funerary relief. British Museum Catalogue of
Sculpture 649. Photo: Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
II Part of a papyrus roll. British Museum Papyrus 115, cols. 27-34.
Reproduced by permission of the British Library. Photo: British
Library.
III Leaf of an open papyrus codex. British Museum. Reproduced by
courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society. Photo: Egypt Exploration
Society.
IVa Epidaurus: the theatre from the air. Photo: R. V. Schoder, SJ.
IVb Auletes and figures in oriental costume. Fragments of a hydria found in
Corinth. Corinth T 1144. Photo: American School of Classical Studies.
Va Actors dressing and rehearsing. Red-figure pelike from Cervetri, c. 430
B.C. H. L. Pierce Fund 98.883. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. Photo: Museum.
Vb Actors dressing and rehearsing. Red-figure bell-krater, from Valle Pega,
c. 460 B.C. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Ferrara T 173c (V.P.).
Photo: Biancolli.
Via Painted backdrop for a play. Fragment of a polychrome vase from
Tarentum, c. 350 B.C. Wurzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum inv.
H 4696 and H 4701. Photo: Museum.
VIb An actor and his mask. Wall-painting from Herculaneum. Naples,
National Museum no. 9019. Photo: Anderson no. 23415, courtesy of
The Mansell Collection.
Vila Mask of a tragic heroine. Fragment of a red-figure jug from Athens, c.
470-460 B.C. Agora Museum inv. P 11810. Photo: American School of
Classical Studies.
Vllb Female tragic mask. Fragment of a red-figure vase from Athens, c. 400
B.C. Wurzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum inv. H 4781. Photo:
Museum.
VIIc Actor holding his mask. Fragment of a polychrome vase from Tarentum,
c. 340 B.C. Wurzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum inv. H 4600. Photo:
Museum.
VIII Actors, satyr chorus, auletes, playwright and lyre-player. The Pronomos
Vase: red-figure volute-krater from Athens, c. 400 B.C. Furtwangler-
Reichhold (1921).
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PREFACE
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PREFACE
A collaborative enterprise of this kind owes much to a large number of
people. The Publishers and Editors would like to make special acknowledge-
ment for help, on behalf of the contributors to be mentioned, to Professor
Christian Habicht, Professor C. P. Jones (G. W. Bowersock); Mr E. L. Bowie,
Miss J. M. Reynolds, Professor R. P. Winnington-Ingram (P. E. Easterling);
Professor B. R. Rees (A. A. Long); Professor Hugh Lloyd-Jones (R. P.
Winnington-Ingram). Mr Martin Drury deserves particular appreciation for his
work as editor of the Appendix of Authors and Works and author of the
Metrical Appendix. Jenny Morris compiled the index.
The Editors wish to thank the contributors most warmly for their patience
in the face of frustrating delays, which bedevilled the production of this volume,
and the Publishers for their constant and imaginative support.
P.E.E.
B.M.W.K.
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ABBREVIATIONS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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