Hellenistic studies at a crossroads : exploring texts, contexts and metatexts / edited by Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos and Evina Sistakou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.), editor.

Rengakos, Antonios, editor.

Sistakou, Evina, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 25.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 1868-4785 ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek literature, Hellenistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory, aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a variety of texts which include not only poems by the major Alexandrians but also prose works, epigrams, epigraphic material and scholia. Perspectives range from linguistic analysis to interdisciplinary studies, whereas post-classical literature is also seen against the background of the cultural and ideological contexts of the era. Besides reviewing preconceptions of Hellenistic scholarship, this volume aims at providing fresh insights into Hellenistic literature and aesthetics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of Contents

I. Genres

Callimachus and Early Greek Elegy / Massimilla, Giulio

Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre / Sider, David

Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose / Hutchinson, G. O.

II. Style and Narrative

Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry / Hunter, Richard

Poetic Meaning, Place, and Dialect in the Epigrams of Meleager / Gutzwiller, Kathryn

Narrative and Simile in Lycophron's Alexandra / Sens, Alexander

(Re)constructing Myth: Elliptical Narrative in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry / Ambühl, Annemarie

III. Aesthetics

From Emotion to Sensation: The Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry / Sistakou, Evina

"Your first commitments tangible again" - Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category? / Pontani, Filippomaria

The Jewels and the Dolls: Late Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigrams as Metapoetic Texts / Prioux, Évelyne

IV. Scholarship

Tragic smiles: When tragedy gets too comic for Aristotle and later Hellenistic readers / Fantuzzi, Marco

Philo Senior and the Waters of Jerusalem / Faulkner, Andrew

V. Contexts

Spiders in the Greek Wide Web? / Harder, Annette

Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda / Petrovic, Ivana

"Déjà la pierre pense où votre nom s'inscrit" / Barbantani, Silvia

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110368130

3110368137

9783110342949

3110342944

OCLC:

892197343