“Your first commitments tangible again” – Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. I. Genres
5. Callimachus and Early Greek Elegy 3
6. Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre 13
7. Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose 31
8. II. Style and Narrative
9. Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry 55
10. Poetic Meaning, Place, and Dialect in the Epigrams of Meleager 75
11. Narrative and Simile in Lycophron’s Alexandra 97
12. (Re)constructing Myth: Elliptical Narrative in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry 113
13. III. Aesthetics
14. From Emotion to Sensation: The Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry 135
15. “Your first commitments tangible again” – Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category? 157
16. The Jewels and the Dolls: Late Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigrams as Metapoetic Texts 185
17. IV. Scholarship
18. Tragic smiles: When tragedy gets too comic for Aristotle and later Hellenistic readers 215
19. Philo Senior and the Waters of Jerusalem 235
20. V. Contexts
21. Spiders in the Greek Wide Web? 259
22. Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda 273
23. “Déjà la pierre pense où votre nom s’inscrit” 301
24. Bibliography 335
25. Notes on Contributors 371
26. Index 375