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Informationen zum Autor Marco Fantuzzi is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Macerata and at the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Florence. His published works include Bionis Smyrnaei Adonis Epitaphium (Francis Cairns! 1985) and Ricerche Su Apollonio Rodio: Diacronie della Dizione Epica (Rome! 1988). Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively on Hellenistic poetry and previous works include The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (0521316529)! The Argonautica of Apollonius: literary studies (0521604389)! and Theocritus! Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley! 2003). 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.
