This volume brings together fifteen papers which address key issues in the field of Hellenistic studies. In using modern critical approaches, the authors discuss the genre, style, narrative and aesthetics of post-classical literature and highlight its cultural and ideological contexts. By reassessing conventional views and methods the volume aims at providing new insights into Hellenistic literature.
Author(s): Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 25
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: VIII+379
Tags: Medieval;Movements & Periods;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;Ancient & Classical;Movements & Periods;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;Literature;American Literature;Creative Writing & Composition;English Literature;Literary Theory;World Literature;Humanities;New, Used & Rental Textbooks;Specialty Boutique
I. Genres
Giulio Massimilla: Callimachus and Early Greek Elegy
David Sider: Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre
G. O. Hutchinson: Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose
II. Style and Narrative
Richard Hunter: Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry
Kathryn Gutzwiller: Poetic Meaning, Place, and Dialect in the Epigrams of Meleager
Alexander Sens: Narrative and Simile in Lycophron’s Alexandra
Annemarie Ambühl: (Re)constructing Myth: Elliptical Narrative in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry
III. Aesthetics
Evina Sistakou: From Emotion to Sensation: The Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry
Filippomaria Pontani: ‟Your first commitments tangible again” - Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category?
Évelyne Prioux: The Jewels and the Dolls: Late Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigrams as Metapoetic Texts
IV. Scholarship
Marco Fantuzzi: Tragic smiles: When tragedy gets too comic for Aristotle and later Hellenistic readers
Andrew Faulkner: Philo Senior and the Waters of Jerusalem
V. Contexts
Annette Harder: Spiders in the Greek Wide Web?
Ivana Petrovic: Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda
Silvia Barbantani: “Déjà la pierre pense où votre nom s’inscrit”: Identity in context in verse epitaphs for Hellenistic soldiers
