Theocritus And The Archaeology Of Greek Poetry
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| Author | : Richard L. Hunter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 1996-03-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521560403 |
The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these discoveries are fully exploited in a set of readings which will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.
| Author | : Richard Hunter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2006-12-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521035262 |
This book focuses on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus, and examines how Theocritus uses the traditions of earlier Greek poetry to recreate past forms in a way that exploits the new conditions under which poetry was written in the third century BC. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these new discoveries are fully drawn on in a set of readings that will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 852 |
| Release | : 2021-08-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004466711 |
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
| Author | : Theocritus |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2003-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0520235606 |
In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age."
| Author | : Neil Hopkinson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1994-09-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521423137 |
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.
| Author | : Manuel Baumbach |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2010-12-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521118050 |
This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic achievement.
| Author | : A. D. Morrison |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521201055 |
This text examines how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius deal with their poetic inheritance from earlier Greek poetry.
| Author | : Richard Hunter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2009-02-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521898781 |
Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
| Author | : René Nünlist |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 608 |
| Release | : 2017-07-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9047405706 |
This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger historical perspective on the manner in which it changes over time and is put to different uses by different authors in different genres. The first volume lays the foundation for all volumes to come, discussing the definition and boundaries of narrative, and the roles of its producer, the narrator, and recipient, the narratees.
| Author | : Kathryn Gutzwiller |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2005-09-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 019151490X |
The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100 previously unknown epigrams by one of the most prominent poets of the third century BC, but as an artefact it constitutes our earliest example of a Greek poetry book. In addition to a poetic translation of the entire corpus of Posidippus' poetry, this volume contains essays about Posidippus by experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Augustan literature, Ptolemaic history, and Graeco-Roman visual culture.
