A companion to Hellenistic literature /
Examining the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature, this title provides a wide ranging critical examination of Hellenistic literature, including the works of well-respected poets alongside lesser-known historical, philosophical, and scientific prose of the period
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : 2010 Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, Mass. : 2010 Chichester : 2014 Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : 2010 |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Blackwell companions to the ancient world Literature and culture Blackwell companions to the ancient world Literature and culture. Blackwell companions to the ancient world |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine
- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman
- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens
- Education / Jessica Wissmann
- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder
- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray
- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss
- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken
- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl
- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch
- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi
- Aratus / Katharina Volk
- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli
- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne
- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed
- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel
- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito
- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape
- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens
- Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers
- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White
- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing
- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh
- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen
- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer
- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild
- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss
- Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine
- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman
- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens
- Education / Jessica Wissmann
- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder
- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray
- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss
- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken
- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl
- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch
- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi
- Aratus / Katharina Volk
- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli
- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne
- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed
- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel
- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito
- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape
- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens
- Historiography, rhetoric, and science / Martine Cuypers
- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White
- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing
- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh
- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen
- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer
- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild
- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss
- Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine
- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman
- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens
- Education / Jessica Wissmann
- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder
- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray
- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss
- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken
- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl
- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch
- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi
- Aratus / Katharina Volk
- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli
- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne
- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed
- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel
- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito
- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape
- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens
- Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers
- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White
- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing
- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh
- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen
- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer
- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild
- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss
- Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine
- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman
- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens
- Education / Jessica Wissmann
- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder
- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray
- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss
- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken
- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl
- Hymns and encomia / Anthony W. Bulloch
- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi
- Aratus / Katharina Volk
- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli
- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne
- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed
- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel
- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito
- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape
- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens
- Historiography, rhetoric and science : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic prose / Martine Cuypers
- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen A. White
- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing
- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh
- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen
- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian S. Moyer
- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild
- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss