By P. E. Easterling
This sequence presents person textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, historical past and oratory, and at the literature of the Hellenistic interval and of the Empire. A bankruptcy on books and readers within the Greek global concludes half four. each one half has its personal appendix of authors and works, an inventory of works stated, and an index.
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Reading Theon one can detect the same principles as have traditionally underlain the teaching of Greek and Latin 'composition' in English schools: the end is not merely technical fluency but also sympathetic contact with the authors and their styles. Both in their earnest concern for 'purity' of style and in dieir insistence on the use of classical models the rhetoricians furthered the sense of a common culture which was founded on the study of the poets. Their stylistic notions could lead to absurdities of exaggerated Atticism and may all too often have stifled originality and experiment, but at least they helped to sustain the cosmopolitan character of die Greek world through its most important medium, a universal educated language.
Who rescued a great deal of past Greek literature for posterity, laid the foundations of classical scholarship, and through their own creative output gave the Roman authors some of their most influential models. Another important long-term effect of Hellenization was the continuity of ancient and Byzantine education. Because the early Christians chose Greek as the vehicle for their proselytizing literature there was a strong reason for the basic character of the ancient educational system to be preserved into the Byzantine world and with it a demand, however limited, for pagan texts.
Onwards. Scholars can now tell much more precisely what the books looked like and how diey were made, and widi the aid of the many dated official documents among die finds they can trace the changing style of handwriting over the centuries. The papyri also reveal a great deal about the intellectual level and the tastes of readers, but this is more equivocal evidence which needs to be treated with caution. The difficulty arises because die evidence comes overwhelmingly from a single corner of die Greek-speaking world, Egypt, where climatic conditions have most favoured die survival of papyrus books.