Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Clauss, James Joseph.
2. Cuypers, Martine.

Description

1. xxv, 550 p. : maps; 26 cm.

Series statement

1. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform title

1. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative title

1. Hellenistic literature

Subject

1. Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-31 v. Chr
2. Geschichte
3. Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism
4. Literatur
5. Hellenismus
6. Greek literature, Hellenistic

Genre/Form

1. Aufsatzsammlung.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers -- From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine -- Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman -- Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens -- Education / Jessica Wissmann -- The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder -- Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray -- Epigram / Jon S. Bruss -- Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken -- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl -- Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch -- Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi -- Aratus / Katharina Volk -- Nicander / Enrico Magnelli -- The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne -- Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed -- Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel -- Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito -- Menander's comedy / Susan Lape -- Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens -- Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers -- Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller -- Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White -- From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing -- Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh -- Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen -- Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer -- Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild -- From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss.

Call number

1. PA3081

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-534) and index.

Title

1. A companion to Hellenistic literature / edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers.

Imprint

1. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Series

1. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
2. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-534) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents
2. Klappentext

Chronological term

1. Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-31 v. Chr.
2. Geschichte

Added author

1. Clauss, James Joseph.
2. Cuypers, Martine.

LCCN

1. 2009025321

ISBN

1. 9781405136792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 1405136790 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *R-RMRR PA3081 .C63 2010