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A companion to Hellenistic literature / edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.
- Greek literature, Hellenistic.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 550 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781405136792
- 1405136790
- OCLC:
- 417443926
- Publisher Number:
- 99940665939
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