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In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian. Many of these anecdotes and narratives have long been rejected as spurious or motivated by na

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
• Author: Alexander Beecroft
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9780521194310
• ISBN: 0521194318
• ID: 04378377
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. January 2010

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