The Norton Book of Classical Literature Hardcover - 1993
by Bernard M. Knox (Editor)
With this generous collection Bernard Knox introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of classical literature. These selections--more than 300 in all--form the foundation of Western literature and culture. Bernard Knox is also coeditor of the landmark Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
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"The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...". So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant" - the foundation of Western literature and culture, the inspiration for writers from Dante to Shakespeare to T. S. Eliot. However much - or little - of it we may have read, classical literature has shaped our world and how we perceive it. Yet for most of us classical writing is little more than a narrow circle of legendary figures. The names of Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, Virgil, and Saint Augustine are familiar, but behind their work lies a vast fellowship of writers with a common mythological and artistic heritage. The Norton Book of Classical Literature thus includes not only the "greats" but also significant though lesser known figures and traditions: archaic lyric poets, Alexandrian Greeks, and Roman satirists, for example. Also recovered for us are the breathtaking variety of forms that literature took - epic, lyric, ode, dithyramb, tragedy, comedy, history, dialogue, idyll, epigram, satire, to name a few. The translations selected for this collection, from classic nineteenth-century versions to as yet unpublished manuscripts, reflect the diversity of the works themselves and bring them to us with eloquence and clarity. In his brilliant introduction - an account of the development of classical literature from the origins of the Greek language and Homer to the fall of Rome and Saint Augustine - Knox distills for the general reader a complex literary tradition and allows even those with a thorough knowledge of classical writing to seethat tradition anew. Informative notes throughout the book allow works - some long forgotten, ignored, or misinterpretedto emerge, as vital and compelling today as they were so many centuries ago. From the lyrical precision of Archilochus and Sappho to the epic sweep of Apollonius and Virgil; from the storytelling genius of Herodotus and Ovid to the philosophical ruminations of Marcus Aurelius; from the sobering histories of Thucydides and Tacitus to the satires of Petronius and Juvenal; from tantalizing papyrus fragments only recently unearthed to the complete Antigone, Sophocles' tragic masterpiece - The Norton Book of Classical Literature revives what for many of us has become a lost tradition.
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- Title The Norton Book of Classical Literature
- Author Bernard M. Knox (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 872
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1993-03
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780393034264 / 0393034267
- Weight 2.44 lbs (1.11 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.06 x 1.68 in (23.50 x 15.39 x 4.27 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Classical literature - Translations into, Greece - Literary collections
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92010378
- Dewey Decimal Code 880.09
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- Booklist, 02/15/1993, Page 1026
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