Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature (Facts on File Library of World Literature) - Hardcover

Cook, James Wyatt

9780816064755: Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature (Facts on File Library of World Literature)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081606475X ISBN 13: 9780816064755

Publisher: Facts on File, 2008

Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature offers comprehensive coverage of the literary works, writers, and concepts of the ancient world, from the beginnings to approximately 500 CE. Ranging 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 Aristophanes, Confucius, Euclid, Flavius Josephus, Hammurabi, Homer, Horace, Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Virgil, Yamanoue no Okura, Zoroaster, and more; famous works, such as ""The Aeneid"", ""The Egyptian Book of the Dead"", ""The Epic of Gilgamesh"", Hebrew Bible, ""The Iliad"", ""Medea"", ""The Nart Sagas"", the New Testament, Ramayana, and more; and, literary and historical terms, such as alphabet, hubris, epic, quipu, Rosetta Stone, and more.

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About the Author:

James Wyatt Cook retired in 2000 as Langbo Trustees' Professor of English at Michigan's Albion College.

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