The Laurel and the Olive : Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (618 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is an academic exploration of the intricacies and continuities within Greek poetry from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. The book delves into the stylistic and thematic elements shared between these eras, highlighting how poets like Sappho, Callimachus, and Theocritus utilized subtle techniques and allusions. Acosta-Hughes examines the fluid boundaries between periods and the ongoing literary dialogue, emphasizing the importance of scholarly analysis in appreciating ancient texts. This collection is aimed at scholars and enthusiasts of classical literature, offering insights into the political and artistic contexts of Hellenistic poetry, and encouraging readers to discover the nuanced beauty and complexity in these historical works. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

Part I: Discourses of Present and Past

1 "Rosy-Armed Dawn": A New Text and an Old Reading

2 Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and Aeneid 6.458)

3 Callimachus, Hipponax and the Persona of the Iambographer

4 In the Glassy Stream: Some further Thoughts on Callimachus and Pindar

5 The Prefigured Muse: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Poetics

6 The Cicada's Song: Plato in the Aetia

7 Poets in Dialogue

8 Bucolic Singers of the Short Song: Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls

9 Aesthetics and Recall: Callimachus Frs. 226-9 Pf. Reconsidered

10 The Wandering Tendril: An Essay on Hellenistic Metapoetics

11 Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master

12 Reflections: Two Letters, and Two Poets

13 A Gift of Callimachus

14 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry

15 Implications of Ecphrasis: Two Homeric Objects, Two Hellenistic Poets, One Common Alexandrian Poetic

16 From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus

Part II: The Aesthetics of Alexandria

17 The Goddess Playing with Gold: On the Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text

18 In Helen's Image: Visualizing a Queen. Representations of Arsinoe II

19 Those who Ascend to Heaven: Apotheosis in Rome and Alexandria

20 A Lost Pavane for a Dead Princess: Call. Fr. 228 Pf.

21 Gems for a Princess: Female Figures in the Posidippus Papyrus

22 That I be your Plaything: The Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text

23 The Dioscuri in Alexandrian Poetry: Character and Symbolic Role

24 Reconfiguring Myth: Heracles in Alexandria

25 The Homeric Shore of Alexandria: A Narrative of a Culture in Motion

26 The Italian Landscape in Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes.

27 Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24)

28 "Nor when a Man Goes to Dionysus' Holy Contests" (Theocritus 17.112): Outlines of Theatrical Performance in Theocritus

29 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries

Part III: The Poetics of Desire

30 Love and the Hunter: Callimachus and Platonic Paideia

31 A Little-Studied Dialogue: Responses to Plato in Callimachean Epigram

32 On the Threshold of Time: The Short Spring of Male Beauty and the Epyllion

33 The Breast of Antinous: The Male Body as Erotic Object in Hellenistic Image and Text

34 Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram

35 There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love - Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace

36 I Alone Had an Untimely Love: The Ephebic 'Epyllia' of Dionysiaka 10-11

37 The Poem Remembers: Conceptualization of Memory in the Poetry of Callimachus and Cavafy

General Bibliography

Figures

General Index

Index Locorum.

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ISBN:

9783110787672

OCLC:

1432917598