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- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Part I Canon
- Chapter 1 Canon: The Evidence
- Chapter 2 Canon in Practice
- Part II Space
- Part III Scale
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Canon in Practice
The Polis of Letters
from Part I - Canon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2020
Book contents
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Part I Canon
- Chapter 1 Canon: The Evidence
- Chapter 2 Canon in Practice
- Part II Space
- Part III Scale
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the preceding chapter we established that the canon was real. In this chapter I try to understand what this meant in practice. What was it that an ancient audience possessed when it was in possession of its canon? And how and when was this canon formed? Two questions: one structural, the other historical. I study these two questions in order, in sections 2.2 and 2.3, respectively.
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- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture , pp. 96 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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