Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

by Reviel Netz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108481477
• ISBN13: 9781108481472
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 902 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.6"