Studies in the reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic poetry / Alexandros Kampakoglou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kampakoglou, Alexandros, 1983- author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 76.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.

Pindar.

Pindar--Influence.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

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

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Criticism and interpretation.

Egypt--Alexandria.

Intertextuality.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

XIV, 454 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]

Summary:

Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This monograph is the first book to offer a systematic examination of the evidence for the reception of Pindar in the works of Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidippus of Pella. Through a series of case studies, it argues that Pindaric poetry exercised a considerable influence on a variety of Hellenistic genres: epinician elegies and epigrams, hymns, encomia, and epic poetry. For the poets active at the courts of the first three Ptolemies, Pindar's poetry represented praise discourse in its most successful configuration. Imitating aspects of it, they lent their support to the ideological apparatus of Greco-Egyptian kingship, shaped the literary profile of Pindar for future generations of readers, and defined their own role and place in Greek literary history. The discussion offered in this book suggests new insights into aspects of literary tradition, Ptolemaic patronage, and Hellenistic poetics, placing Pindar's work at the very heart of an intricate nexus of political and poetic correspondences.

Contents:

Introduction: Reception as a Cultural Phenomenon and Textual Process

Part I: Epinician Poetry and Discourse

Chapter 1. Performing Praise in Ptolemaic Alexandria: Callimachus's Epinician Elegies

Chapter 2. The Reception of Pindar in Posidippus's Hippika (AB 71-88)

Chapter 3. Epinician Echoes in Apollonius's Argonautica: Heroic Foils and the Poetics of Immortality

Part II: Encomia and Hymns

Chapter 4. Pindaric Eschatology and Inherent Excellence in Theocritus's Idyll 17

Chapter 5. The Mytho-Poetics of Praise: Prodigious Heracles in Pindar and Theocritus 24

Chapter 6. Pindaric Theogonies and the Poetics of Callimachus's Hymn to Zeus

Chapter 7. Textualizing Cyrenean Choreia in Callimachus's Hymn to Apollo

Chapter 8. Defining the Elusive: Tradition and Innovation in Callimachus's Hymn to Delos

Part III: Myth and Poetry

Chapter 9. The Poetics of Experimentation: Generic Hybridization and the Argonautic Myth

Afterword

Works Cited

Index of Greek Words

Index of Passages Discussed

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3110641402

9783110641400

OCLC:

1089572713

Publisher Number:

99981835381