Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with many verse texts and inscriptions. In the process, they offer new insights into the various ways in which late Hellenistic literature engaged with its social, cultural and political contexts, while interrogating and revising some of the standard narratives of the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literary culture, which are too often studied in isolation from each other. As a whole the book prompts us to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history.

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• Authors: Jason (University of St Andrews Koenig
• Assisted by: Jason (University of St Andrews Koenig (Editor), Jason König (Editor), Nicolas Wiater (Editor), Nicolas (University of St Andrews Wiater (Editor), Wiater Nicolas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781316516683
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51668-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Literary theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval