Poetry as window and mirror : positioning the poet in Hellenistic poetry / by Jacqueline Klooster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klooster, Jacqueline.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 330.

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0169-8958 ; 330

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--Egypt--Alexandria--History and criticism.

Egypt--Alexandria.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Poetic Predecessors in Epigram 15

1.1 From Greece to Alexandria 15

1.2 Greek Poets and Their Predecessors 16

1.3 Royal Patronage and Cultural Memory 18

1.4 Which Poets and What Past? 21

1.5 Poetical Predecessors in Epigram 24

1.5.1 The Text as Monument 26

1.5.2 Biographical Readings 35

1.6 Conclusion 41

Chapter 2 Coming to Terms with Poetic Models 43

2.1 Tradition and Originality 43

2.2 Meeting Ancient Poets 45

2.2.1 Timon, Xenophanes and Pyrrho in Homer's Hades 47

2.2.2 Hipponax in Callimachus' Iambi and Herondas' Mimiambi 49

2.3 Paradigmatic Poets: Theocritus 16 54

2.4 Biased Readings: Hermesianax' Leontion 60

2.5 Poets to Avoid 63

2.5.1 Imitating Homer 64

2.5.2 Liking Antimachus 69

2.6 Conclusion 72

Chapter 3 Appropriating Mythical Poets 75

3.1 Inventing Traditions 75

3.2 Mythical Poets 77

3.3 Orpheus in Greek Tradition 81

3.4 Orpheus in the Argonautica 82

3.5 Orpheus and the Hymnic Argonautica 87

3.6 Theocritus and the Invention of Bucolic Poetry 91

3.7 Ancient Theories on the Origins of Bucolic Poetry 97

3.8 Daphnis in Idyll 1 99

3.9 Allusive Narrative in Ancient Poetry 103

3.10 Daphnis in the Other Idylls 105

3.11 Daphnis and Comatas 108

3.12 A World of Song 110

3.13 Conclusion 112

Chapter 4 Criticizing Contemporaries 115

4.1 The Muses' Birdcage 115

4.2 Poetic Competition and Strife 117

4.3 Bourdieu's Field of Cultural Production 120

4.4 Callimachus and Apollonius 121

4.5 The Aetia-Prologue 127

4.6 The Telchines and the Lyde 135

4.7 Callimachus' Iambi 137

4.8 Epigrams 141

4.9 Conclusion 144

Chapter 5 Praising Contemporaries 147

5.1 Praised Poetics and Poetics of Praise 147

5.2 Praising the Old and the New 149

5.3 Reading the Signs in Aratus' Phaenomena 154

5.4 The Mirror of Immortality 161

5.5 Inviting Comparison 166

5.6 Eliciting Praise 169

5.7 Conclusion 172

Chapter 6 Persona, Alias and Alter Ego in Sphragis-poetry 175

6.1 Sphragides 175

6.2 The Seal or Testament of Posidippus 177

6.3 Role-Playing versus Self-Portrayal 183

6.4 Allusive Names, Elusive Poets 188

6.5 Punning and Wordplay 190

6.6 Theocritus, Simichidas and Lycidas 195

6.7 Conclusion 207

Chapter 7 Authority and Inspiration in the Age of the Museum 209

7.1 Questioning the Muse 209

7.2 Homeric Scholarship and Hellenistic Poetry 212

7.3 Overview of Passages Featuring υποφητης 214

7.4 The Μουσαι υποφητορες of Apollonius 217

7.5 Apollonius on Poetic Inspiration 222

7.6 Parallel Representations of the Muses 225

7.7 Theocritus 227

7.7.1 Idyll 16: Κλεος and Prophecy 227

7.7.2 Idyll 17: Immortal Fame for an Immortal King 229

7.7.3 Idyll 22: Rewriting the Poetic Past 233

7.8 Conclusion 237.

Notes:

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004202290

9004202293

OCLC:

694172180