Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

Informationen zum Autor Graham Zanker is professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of The Heart of Achilles and Realism in Alexandrian Poetry . Klappentext Taking a look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 BC, this book makes discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zusammenfassung Taking a look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age! from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 BC! this book makes discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Zanker
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9780299194543
• ISBN: 978-0-299-19454-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies