HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP From the Beginnings to the End of Hellenistic Age
by Pfeiffer, Rudolf
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0198143427
- ISBN 13
- 9780198143420
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Oxford University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. 0198143427 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and blindstamps; This volume is concerned with the foundations laid by Greek poets and scholars in the last three centuries B. C. For the whole future of classical scholarship. It starts with a brief survey of the pre-Hellenistic ages in Greece and a few hints at the oriental background. Then the author makes full use of the available evidence, especially that of the papyri, to demonstrate the fresh start made by Hellenistic poets after 300 B. C. And to describe the essential achievements of five generations of creative scholars in Alexandria and of their epigoni down to the age of Augustus. ; 9.75 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 311 pages .
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- Ancient World Books (CA)
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- 36949
- Title
- HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP From the Beginnings to the End of Hellenistic Age
- Author
- Pfeiffer, Rudolf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0198143427
- ISBN 13
- 9780198143420
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- 0198143427, Greece, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Greece, Scholarship, Humanism, Classical Greek & Roman, Greek History, Hellenistic
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