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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Introduction XI
5. Contents XVII
6. Part I: Discourses of Present and Past
7. 1 “Rosy-Armed Dawn”: A New Text and an Old Reading 1
8. 2 Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and Aeneid 6.458) 6
9. 3 Callimachus, Hipponax and the Persona of the Iambographer 16
10. 4 In the Glassy Stream: Some further Thoughts on Callimachus and Pindar 28
11. 5 The Prefigured Muse: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Poetics 42
12. 6 The Cicada’s Song: Plato in the Aetia 56
13. 7 Poets in Dialogue 73
14. 8 Bucolic Singers of the Short Song: Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls 89
15. 9 Aesthetics and Recall: Callimachus Frs. 226–9 Pf. Reconsidered 116
16. 10 The Wandering Tendril: An Essay on Hellenistic Metapoetics 131
17. 11 Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 147
18. 12 Reflections: Two Letters, and Two Poets 167
19. 13 A Gift of Callimachus 174
20. 14 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry 187
21. 15 Implications of Ecphrasis: Two Homeric Objects, Two Hellenistic Poets, One Common Alexandrian Poetic 209
22. 16 From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus 222
23. Part II: The Aesthetics of Alexandria
24. 17 The Goddess Playing with Gold: On the Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text 237
25. 18 In Helen’s Image: Visualizing a Queen. Representations of Arsinoe II 249
26. 19 Those who Ascend to Heaven: Apotheosis in Rome and Alexandria 262
27. 20 A Lost Pavane for a Dead Princess: Call. Fr. 228 Pf. 273
28. 21 Gems for a Princess: Female Figures in the Posidippus Papyrus 294
29. 22 That I be your Plaything: The Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text 308
30. 23 The Dioscuri in Alexandrian Poetry: Character and Symbolic Role 324
31. 24 Reconfiguring Myth: Heracles in Alexandria 338
32. 25 The Homeric Shore of Alexandria: A Narrative of a Culture in Motion 351
33. 26 The Italian Landscape in Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes 380
34. 27 Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) 391
35. 28 “Nor when a Man Goes to Dionysus’ Holy Contests” (Theocritus 17.112): Outlines of Theatrical Performance in Theocritus 404
36. 29 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries 422
37. Part III: The Poetics of Desire
38. 30 Love and the Hunter: Callimachus and Platonic Paideia 445
39. 31 A Little-Studied Dialogue: Responses to Plato in Callimachean Epigram 462
40. 32 On the Threshold of Time: The Short Spring of Male Beauty and the Epyllion 477
41. 33 The Breast of Antinous: The Male Body as Erotic Object in Hellenistic Image and Text 487
42. 34 Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram 499
43. 35 There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love — Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace 513
44. 36 I Alone Had an Untimely Love: The Ephebic ‘Epyllia’ of Dionysiaka 10–11 523
45. 37 The Poem Remembers: Conceptualization of Memory in the Poetry of Callimachus and Cavafy 533
46. General Bibliography 551
47. Figures 571
48. General Index 583
49. Index Locorum 593