Literary History in the Parian Marble

by Andrea Rotstein

Inscribed some time after 264 BCE, the Parian Marble offers a chronological list of events with an exceptional emphasis on literary matters. Literary History in the Parian Marble explores the literary and historiographical qualities of the inscription, the genre to which it belongs, and the emerging patterns of time. Endorsing the hypothesis that the inscription was originally displayed at a Parian shrine honoring Archilochus, Andrea Rotstein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417232
• ISBN13: 9780674417236
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"