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9780511627378
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The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these discoveries are fully exploited in a set of readings which will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry
Inhalt:
1. Locating the site. Towards Theocritus. The poetic context. The languages of Theocritus -- 2. 'All the twos': Idyll 22. Hymns of praise. Hymning the Dioscuri. Two gods and two poets. Pleading with the divine. The seal of the poet -- 3. Idyll 16: poet and patron. The Ptolemaic pattern. The Pindaric pattern. Theocritus and Homer. Theocritus and Simonides -- 4. Idyll 15: imitations of mortality. Theocritus and comedy. Mime and mimesis. Adonis and the Ptolemies -- 5. Idyll 18 and the lyric past. The lyric past and the Argonautica. A song for Sparta -- 6. For the love of boys: Idylls 12, 29 and 30. The paederastic past. Idylls 29 and 30. Idyll 12
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ISBN 9780521560405
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ISBN 9780521035262
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521560405
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Altertumswissenschaften
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511627378
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