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Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Klooster , Ph. D. (2009) in Classics, University of Amsterdam, is researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. She has published various articles on Hellenistic Poetry including narratological analyses of time and space in Apollonius and Theocritus (Brill, 2007). Klappentext Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary Hellenistic poets, this book attempts to chart the complex dynamics of Alexandrian poetical imitation and reception in the light of poetical self-positioning. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER 1: POETIC PREDECESSORS IN EPIGRAM 1.1 From Greece to Alexandria 1.2 Greek Poets and their Predecessors 1.3 Royal Patronage and Cultural Memory 1.4 Which Poets and what Past? 1.5 Poetical Predecessors Represented in Epigram 1.5.1 The Text as Monument 1.5.2 Biographical Readings 1.6 Conclusion CHAPTER 2: COMING TO TERMS WITH POETIC MODELS 2.1 Tradition and Originality 2.2 Meeting Ancient Poets 2.2.1 Timon! Xenophanes and Pyrrho in Homer's Hades 2.2.2 Hipponax in Callimachus' Iambi and Herondas' Mimiambi 2.3 Paradigmatic Poets: Theocritus 16: 2.4 Biased Readings: Hermesianax' Leontion 2.5 Poets to Avoid 2.5.1 Imitating Homer 2.5.2 Liking Antimachus 2.6 Conclusion CHAPTER 3: APPROPRIATING MYTHICAL POETS 3.1 Inventing Traditions 3.2 Mythical Poets 3.3 Orpheus in Greek Tradition 3.4 Orpheus in the Argonautica 3.5 Orpheus and the Hymnic Argonautica 3.6 Theocritus and the Invention of Bucolic Poetry 3.7 Ancient Theories on the Origins of Bucolic Poetry 3.8 Daphnis in Idyll 1 3.9 Allusive Narrative 3.10 Daphnis in the other Idylls 3.11 Daphnis and Comatas 3.12 A World of Song 3.13 Conclusion CHAPTER 4: CRITICIZING CONTEMPORARIES 4.1 The Muses' Birdcage 4.2 Poetic Competition and Strife 4.3 Bourdieu's Field of Cultural Production 4.4 Callimachus and Apollonius 4.5 The Aetia-Prologue 4.6 The Telchines and the Lyde 4.7 Callimachus' Iambi 4.8 Epigrams 4.9 Conclusion CHAPTER 5: PRAISING CONTEMPORARIES 5.1 Praised Poetics and Poetics of Praise 5.2 Praising the Old and the New 5.3 Reading the Signs in Aratus' Phaenomena 5.4 The Mirror of Immortality 5.5 Inviting Comparison 5.6 Eliciting Praise 5.7 Conclusion CHAPTER 6: PERSONA! ALIAS AND ALTER EGO IN SPHRAGIS-POETRY 6.1 Sphragides 6.2 The Seal or Testament of Posidippus 6.3 Role-Playing versus Self-Portrayal 6.4 Allusive Names! Elusive Poets 6.5 Punning and Wordplay 6.6 Theocritus! Simichidas and Lycidas 6.7 Conclusion CHAPTER 7: AUTHORITY AND INSPIRATION IN THE AGE OF THE MUSEUM 7.1 Questioning the Muse 7.2 Homeric Scholarship and Hellenistic Poetry 7.3 Overview of Passages featuring upsilonpiomicronphietatauetasigmaf 7.4 The MUomicronupsilonsigmaalphaiota upsilonpiomicronphietatauomicronrhoepsilonsigmaf of Apollonius 7.5 Apollonius on Poetic Inspiration 7.6 Parallel Representations of the Muses 7.7 Theocritus 7.7.1 Idyll 16: KAPPAlambda omicronsigmaf and Prophecy 7.7.2 Idyll 17: Immortal Fame for an Immortal King 7.7.3 Idyll 22: Rewriting the Poetic Past 7.8 Conclusion ...
