Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads

Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts

Edited by: Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos and Evina Sistakou

Volume 25 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110342949

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About this book

This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory, aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a variety of texts which include not only poems by the major Alexandrians but also prose works, epigrams, epigraphic material and scholia. Perspectives range from linguistic analysis to interdisciplinary studies, whereas post-classical literature is also seen against the background of the cultural and ideological contexts of the era. Besides reviewing preconceptions of Hellenistic scholarship, this volume aims at providing fresh insights into Hellenistic literature and aesthetics.

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R. Hunter, University of Cambridge, U.K.; A. Rengakos and E. Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I. Genres
Callimachus and Early Greek Elegy Giulio Massimilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre David Sider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose G. O. Hutchinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
II. Style and Narrative
Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry Richard Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Poetic Meaning, Place, and Dialect in the Epigrams of Meleager Kathryn Gutzwiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Narrative and Simile in Lycophron’s Alexandra Alexander Sens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
(Re)constructing Myth: Elliptical Narrative in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry Annemarie Ambühl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
III. Aesthetics
From Emotion to Sensation: The Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry Evina Sistakou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
“Your first commitments tangible again” – Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category? Filippomaria Pontani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
The Jewels and the Dolls: Late Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigrams as Metapoetic Texts Évelyne Prioux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
IV. Scholarship
Tragic smiles: When tragedy gets too comic for Aristotle and later Hellenistic readers Marco Fantuzzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Philo Senior and the Waters of Jerusalem Andrew Faulkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
V. Contexts
Spiders in the Greek Wide Web? Annette Harder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda Ivana Petrovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
“Déjà la pierre pense où votre nom s’inscrit” Identity in context in verse epitaphs for Hellenistic soldiers Silvia Barbantani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Everyone interested in Hellenistic Studies and Hellenistic literature.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 379
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
Keywords: Greek; Hellenistic poetry; poetics

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Published: July 8, 2014
ISBN: 9783110342949

Hardcover

Published: April 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110342895

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110554922