Brill's companion to Theocritus / edited by Poulheria Kyriakou, Evina Sistakou, Antonios Rengakos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kyriakou, Poulheria, editor.

Sistakou, Evina, editor.

Rengakos, Antonios, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies

Brill's companions in classical studies, 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theocritus.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 832 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Other Title:

Companion to Theocritus

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

data file

Summary:

"Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity's foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus' work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet's reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus' profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art. Contributors are: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Annemarie Ambühl, Ewen Bowie, Brian W. Breed, Dee L. Clayman, Taylor S. Coughlan, Christophe Cusset, Frederick T. Griffiths, Thomas K. Hubbard, Richard Hunter, Alexandros Kampakoglou, Evangelos Karakasis, Jacqueline Klooster, David Konstan, Jan Kwapisz, Poulheria Kyriakou, Giulio Massimilla, Claudio Meliadò, Sarah Miles, Andrew D. Morrison, Lara Pagani, Viola Palmieri, Juan C. Pellicer, Ivana Petrovic, Tom Phillips, Évelyne Prioux, Joseph D. Reed, Alexander Sens, Evina Sistakou, Karl-Heinz Stanzel, William G. Thalmann, Olga Tribulato"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Modern trends in the study of Theocritus / Alexandros Kampakoglou

Author and text. A poet's lives / Tom Phillips

Theocritus' textual history and tradition / Claudio Meliadò

Theocritus' dialects / Olga Tribulato

"Linking together rushes and stalks of Asphodel" : the forms of Theocritean poetry / Jan Kwapisz

Genres and models. Theocritus and bucolic poetry / Giulio Massimilla

Performing mime in the Idylls of Theocritus : metrical mime, drama, and the "everyday" in Theocritus, Idylls 2,14, 15 / Sarah Miles

Theocritus' hymns and "Epyllia" : poems 13, 22, 24, 26 / Alexander Sens

Generic experimentation in the epigrams of "Theocritus" / Taylor S. Coughlan

Theocritus and the bucolic Homer / Richard Hunter

Pan's pipes : lyric echoes and contexts in Theocritus / Alexandros Kampakoglou

Theokritos kōmōdopoios : comic patterns and structures in Theocritus' bucolic poems (with a supplement on tragic patterns) / Christophe Cusset

Poetics and aesthetics. Ancient scholarship on Theocritus / Lara Pagani

The sweet pleasures of Theocritus' Idylls : a study in the aesthetics of adytēs / Evina Sistakou

Theocritus' contest poems / Karl-HeinzStanzel

The programmatic Idylls of Theocritus / Jacqueline Klooster

Theocritus and the visual arts / Évelyne Prioux

Narrative and themes. Myth and narrative in Theocritus / Andrew D. Morrison

Theocritean spaces / William G. Thalmann

Theocritus and the rural world / Viola Palmieri

Childhood and youth in Theocritus / Annemarie Ambühl

Eros and the pastoral / David Konstan

Contexts and topics. Among the cicadas : Theocritus and his contemporaries / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

Rulers and patrons in Theocritus / Dee L. Clayman

Theocritus' intercultural poetics / Frederick T. Griffiths

Gods and religion in Theocritus / Ivana Petrovic

Women in Theocritus / Poulheria Kyriakou

Imitation and reception. [Theocritus] : the early reception of Theocritus / Poulheria Kyriakou

Sicilian muses : Theocritus and Virgil's eclogues / Brian W. Breed

The king's nectar : Theocritean encomium and Augustan poetry / Joseph D. Reed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Brill's companion to Theocritus

ISBN:

9789004466715

9004466711

OCLC:

1257312852

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.