Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern society. We are told that this literary form, characterized by schematicity, simplicity, and lack of creativity, did not come about until the rise of literacy and the shortening of workdays. This publication attempts to present a different perspective, demonstrating that antiquity had its fair share of literary pieces that fit the definition of popular, trivial,... Zobrazit více