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