books.google.com - 'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Literature_in_the_Greek_World.html?id=TilWjorNXioC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLiterature in the Greek World