Scale Space And Canon In Ancient Literary Culture

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Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 906
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ISBN-10 : 9781108580090
ISBN-13 : 1108580092
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Book Synopsis Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture by : Reviel Netz

Download or read book Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis of letters' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one's space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres.


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