UID:
almahu_9948197692202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 550 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781118970577
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1118970578
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9781405197335
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1405197331
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Content:
Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature explores, in 30 newly commissioned essays, `the social and intellectual contexts of the production of literature in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature. The volume covers the works of well-respected poets alongside lesser-known historical, philosophical, and scientific prose authors. Critical essays on the Jewish, Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Roman Literature of the period explore the impact of Hellenism on neighboring cultures and vice versa. In addition, serious attention is given throughout the book to Hellenistic texts which in surveys of Greek literature are rarely discussed within their historical context.
Content:
Structured in a clear and accessible style by two highly respected scholars, this Companion expands the way in which Hellenistic literature is perceived and studied. It is the ideal resource for scholars and students of Classics, Ancient History, and Literature. --Book Jacket.
Note:
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.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to Hellenistic literature. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ISBN 9781405136792
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handboeken (vorm)
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118970577
