On coming after : studies in post-classical Greek literature and its reception / by Richard Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.)

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 3.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek literature, Hellenistic.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (928 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter's work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity ('the ancient novel'), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purposes of literature, the intellectual context for ancient poetry, and the interaction of poetry and criticism. What emerges is not a literature shackled to the past and cowed by an 'anxiety of influence', but an energetic and constantly experimental engagement with both past and present.

Contents:

On Coming After - Part 1

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

On Coming After

Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception

1. Apollo and the Argonauts: Two notes on Ap. Rhod. 2, 669 -719

2. Medea's flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica

3. 'Short on heroics': Jason in the Argonautica

4. Winged Callimachus

5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil

6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius

7. Callimachus and Heraclitus

8. Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena

9. Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the Phainomena of Aratus

10. The Presentation of Herodas' Mimiamboi

11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 65

12. Plautus and Herodas

13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonisv. 55

14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15

15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica

16. Callimachus swings (frr. 178 and 43 Pf.)

17. Before and after epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25

18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus' iambic programme

19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus

20. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica

21. Virgil and Theocritus: A Note on the Reception of the Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus

22. The Sense of an Author: Theocritus and [Theocritus]

23. Imaginary Gods? Poetic theology in the Hymns of Callimachus

24. Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change

25. Notes on the Lithika of Poseidippos

26. The Hesiodic Catalogue and Hellenistic Poetry

27. The prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes ('Pseudo-Scymnus')

28. Sweet nothings - Callimachus fr. 1.9 -12 revisited

29. The Reputation of Callimachus

30. Hesiod, Callimachus, and the invention of morality

On Coming After - Part 2

Frontmatter

Comedy and Performance

31. The Comic Chorus in the fourth century

32. Philemon, Plautus and the Trinummus

33. The Aulularia of Plautus and its Greek original

34. Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus

35. 'Acting down': the ideology of Hellenistic performance

36. Showing and telling: notes from the boundary

Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire

37. Generic consciousness in the Orphic Argonautica?

38. Aspects of technique and style in the Periegesis of Dionysius

39. The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of Hellenistic poetry

The Ancient Novel

40. History and Historicity in the Romance of Chariton

41. Longus and Plato

42. Growing up in the ancient novels: a response

43. The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation?

44. 'Philip the Philosopher' on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus

45. Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction

46. Isis and the Language of Aesop

47. The curious incident ...: polypragmosyne and the ancient novel

Back matter

Notes:

Collection of previously published texts.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612073267

9781282073265

1282073265

9783110210309

3110210304

OCLC:

437113325