Encyclopedia of ancient literature

by Cook, James Wyatt

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Title Statements

Full title :Encyclopedia of ancient literature / James Wyatt Cook.

Summary

"Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature contains more than 500 entries on literary topics, works, and writers of the ancient world, from the beginnings to approximately 500 C.E. With coverage that ranges from ancient Greece and Rome to China, Egypt, Japan, India, Persia, Babylonia, the Hebrew world, and more, this accessible A-to-Z encyclopedia provides students with an extensive overview of this period of literature." "Coverage includes: Writers, such as Aeschylus, Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Confucious, Demosthenes, Euclid, Flavius Josephus, Hammurabi, Herodotus, Homer, Horace, Kakinomoto no Hitumato, Menander, Plato, Sappho, Sima Qian, Sophocles, Thucydides, Virgil, Yamanoue no Okura, and Zoroaster; Famous works, including the Aeneid, Antigone, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Gilgamesh Epic, the Hebrew Bible, the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Iliad, Medea, the Metamorphoses, the Nart Sagas, the New Testament, the Odyssey, the Oresteia, the Ramayana, the Rig Veda, and the Trojan Women; and Literary and historical terms, such as alphabet, hubris, epic, quipu, Rosetta Stone, and more."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Facts on File
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 716 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780816064755, 081606475X
oclc:ocn125401386
LC Classification:PN621
Dewey Decimal:809.01

Writers covered, by language of composition -- Authors' time line -- Entries A to Z.

Subjects

Antike Encyclopedia Encyclopedias Encyclopédies Griechisch Latein Literatur Literature, Ancient Literature, Ancient -- Encyclopedias Littérature ancienne -- Encyclopédies Wörterbuch Wörterbuch (Fachlexikon)