Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts by Peter T. Struck

Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

Peter T. Struck

312 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and the...

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