Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry

Klappentext 2004 examination of Hellenistic poetry and of its reception at Rome. Zusammenfassung This study explores the Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome. Close readings of the most familiar poetry of the age are set alongside considerations of newly published texts! providing a different perspective on the literary practices of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Performance and genre; 2. The aetiology of Callimachus' Aitia; 3. The Argonautica of Apollonius and epic tradition; 4. Theocritus and the bucolic genre; 5. Epic in a minor key; 6. The style of Hellenistic epic; 7. The epigram; 8. The languages of praise; 9. Hellenistic drama; 10. Roman epilogue.

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• Authors: Marco Fantuzzi, Marco (Universit... Degli Studi DI Macer Fantuzzi, Marco (Universita Degli Studi DI Macerat Fantuzzi, Marco Hunter Fantuzzi, Fantuzzi Marco, Richard Hunter, Hunter Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521203609
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20360-9
• No. of pages: 522
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets