14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15

Chapters in this book

1. On Coming After - Part 1
2. Frontmatter I
3. Contents V
4. Preface IX
5. Introduction 1
6. On Coming After 8
7. Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception
8. 1. Apollo and the Argonauts:Two notes on Ap. Rhod. 2, 669 –719 29
9. 2. Medea’s flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica 42
10. 3. ‘Short on heroics’: Jason in the Argonautica 59
11. 4. Winged Callimachus 86
12. 5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil 89
13. 6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius 95
14. 7. Callimachus and Heraclitus 115
15. 8. Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena 127
16. 9. Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the Phainomena of Aratus 153
17. 10. The Presentation of Herodas’ Mimiamboi 189
18. 11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 65 206
19. 12. Plautus and Herodas 212
20. 13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonisv. 55 229
21. 14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15 233
22. 15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica 257
23. 16. Callimachus swings (frr. 178 and 43 Pf.) 278
24. 17. Before and after epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25 290
25. 18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus’ iambic programme 311
26. 19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus 326
27. 20. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica 343
28. 21. Virgil and Theocritus: A Note on the Reception of the Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus 378
29. 22. The Sense of an Author: Theocritus and [Theocritus] 384
30. 23. Imaginary Gods? Poetic theology in the Hymns of Callimachus 405
31. 24. Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change 434
32. 25. Notes on the Lithika of Poseidippos 457
33. 26. The Hesiodic Catalogue and Hellenistic Poetry 470
34. 27. The prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes (‘Pseudo-Scymnus’) 503
35. 28. Sweet nothings – Callimachus fr. 1.9 –12 revisited 523
36. 29. The Reputation of Callimachus 537
37. 30. Hesiod, Callimachus, and the invention of morality 559
38. On Coming After - Part 2
39. Frontmatter I
40. Contents V
41. Comedy and Performance
42. 31. The Comic Chorus in the fourth century 575
43. 32. Philemon, Plautus and the Trinummus 593
44. 33. The Aulularia of Plautus and its Greek original 612
45. 34. Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus 627
46. 35. ‘Acting down’: the ideology of Hellenistic performance 643
47. 36. Showing and telling: notes from the boundary 663
48. Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire
49. 37. Generic consciousness in the Orphic Argonautica? 681
50. 38. Aspects of technique and style in the Periegesis of Dionysius 700
51. 39. The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of Hellenistic poetry 718
52. The Ancient Novel
53. 40. History and Historicity in the Romance of Chariton 737
54. 41. Longus and Plato 775
55. 42. Growing up in the ancient novels: a response 790
56. 43. The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation? 804
57. 44. ‘Philip the Philosopher’ on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus 829
58. 45. Plato’s Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction 845
59. 46. Isis and the Language of Aesop 867
60. 47. The curious incident …: polypragmosyne and the ancient novel 884
61. Backmatter 897