The good poem according to Philodemus / Michael McOsker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McOsker, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. On poems.

Philodemus.

Poetics--History--To 1500.

Poetics.

Greek poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Greek poetry.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This work elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose 'On Poems' survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri.

Contents:

Cover

The Good Poem According to Philodemus

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Philodemus and His Prolēpsis of the Good Poem

1 Introduction to Philodemus' Works

2 The Structure and Content of the On Poems

3 Background and Method of This Study

4 Conclusions

5 Kanonikē and the Canon

6 The Prolēpsis of Poetry and the Possibility of an Epicurean Theory of Poetry

7 The Hypographē of "Poem"

8 The Problem of Meter

1 Epicurean Poetics before Philodemus

1 Introduction

2 Epicurus

3 Metrodorus

4 Hermarchus, Polyaenus, and the Other Third-​ and Second-​Century Epicureans

5 Colotes

6 Demetrius Laco

7 Zeno of Sidon

8 Siro

9 Conclusion

2 Philodemus' Terminology and Opponents

2 A Partial Hellenistic Literary-​Critical Lexicon

3 Crates and the Critics in His Treatise

3a Megaclides

3b Andromenides

3c Heracleodorus

3d Heracleodorus and Philodemus on Cookery and Poetry

3e Pausimachus

3f Crates of Mallos

3g The Kritikoi, the "Philosophers," and Crates

4 "Critic A" of Book III

5 Aristotle

6 Heraclides of Pontus

7 The Critics in Philomelus

7a The Anonymous Critics in Philomelus

7b Praxiphanes of Miletus

7c Demetrius of Byzantium

8 Neoptolemus of Parium

9 The Stoics

9a Diogenes of Babylon

9b The Anonymous Stoic (Formerly Known as Aristo)

10 The Anonymous Doxai in Zeno

11 Conclusion

3. Poetry as Technē and the Use of Poetry

2 The Hypographē of Technē and the "Technicity of Rhetoric"

3 The Technicity of Poetry

4 The Utility of the Technē of Poetry

5 The Utility of Poems

6 Conclusion

4. Form and Content

2 ὑποτεταγμένη διάνοια in Philodemus

3 The Interrelation between Form and Content.

4 Form and Content in Practice

5 The Goal for Content

6 The Goal for Form

7 Form and Content in Philodemus' Poetry

8 Conclusion

5. The Judgment of Poems and Their Psychological Effect

2 Intellectualist Poetics

3 The Judgment of Poems

4 "Further Thoughts"

5 Light from Rhetoric III and the Pleasure of Poetry

6 Psychagōgia and Pleasure in Philodemus' Epigrams

7 Conclusion

Conclusion: Philodemus the Epicurean on the Arts

1 Philodemus' Poetics: A Look Back

2 What's Epicurean about Philodemus' Views on the Fine Arts?

Appendix: An Epicurean Critical Miscellany

2 Music and Poetry

3 Rhetoric and Poetry

4 τὸ πρέπον: Characterization, Verisimilitude, and the Suspension of Disbelief

5 The Prolēpsis of the Genres

6 Genre in Philodemus' Epigrams

7 The Imitation of Things

8 The Imitation of Earlier Poets

9 The "Ban" on Metathesis

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index Verborum Graecorum Potiorum

Subject Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091283-9

0-19-091284-7

0-19-091282-0

OCLC:

1256592320