Greek praise poetry and the rhetoric of divinity / Felix J. Meister.

First edition.

9780191882357 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

PA3015.H77

881.00935

Surveying a large body of Greek (and occasionally Roman) literature, as well as material remains, this volume offers the first systematic study of a central motif in the praise of humans in antiquity, and explores when, how, why, and to what effect humans are compared to gods in the poetry of archaic and classical Greece.

Surveying a large body of Greek (and occasionally Roman) literature, as well as material remains, this volume offers the first systematic study of a central motif in the praise of humans in antiquity, and explores when, how, why, and to what effect humans are compared to gods in the poetry of archaic and classical Greece.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford classical monographs.
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