![]() | Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts Subjects: CLASSICAL POETRY -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM; SYMBOLISM IN LITERATURE; BOOKS AND READING -- GREECE; BOOKS AND READING -- ROME; RHETORIC ANCIENT; ALLEGORY; 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 theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol." Peter T. Struck is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center. |
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