A companion to Hellenistic literature / edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to the ancient worldPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2010.Description: p. cmISBN:
  • 9781405136792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 880.09 22
LOC classification:
  • PA3081 .C63 2010
Contents:
Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers -- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine -- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman -- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens -- Education / Jessica Wissmann -- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder -- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray -- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss -- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf K�ohnken -- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Amb�uhl -- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch -- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi -- Aratus / Katharina Volk -- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli -- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne -- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed -- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel -- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito -- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape -- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens -- Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers -- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller -- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White -- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing -- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh -- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen -- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer -- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild -- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers -- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine -- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman -- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens -- Education / Jessica Wissmann -- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder -- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray -- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss -- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf K�ohnken -- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Amb�uhl -- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch -- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi -- Aratus / Katharina Volk -- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli -- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne -- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed -- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel -- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito -- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape -- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens -- Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers -- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller -- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White -- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing -- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh -- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen -- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer -- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild -- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss.

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