On Coming After : : Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception / / Richard Hunter.
This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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Table of Contents:
- On Coming After - Part 1
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- On Coming After
- Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception
- 1. Apollo and the Argonauts:Two notes on Ap. Rhod. 2, 669 –719
- 2. Medea’s flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica
- 3. ‘Short on heroics’: Jason in the Argonautica
- 4. Winged Callimachus
- 5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil
- 6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius
- 7. Callimachus and Heraclitus
- 8. Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena
- 9. Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the Phainomena of Aratus
- 10. The Presentation of Herodas’ Mimiamboi
- 11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 65
- 12. Plautus and Herodas
- 13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonisv. 55
- 14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15
- 15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica
- 16. Callimachus swings (frr. 178 and 43 Pf.)
- 17. Before and after epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25
- 18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus’ iambic programme
- 19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus
- 20. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica
- 21. Virgil and Theocritus: A Note on the Reception of the Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus
- 22. The Sense of an Author: Theocritus and [Theocritus]
- 23. Imaginary Gods? Poetic theology in the Hymns of Callimachus
- 24. Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change
- 25. Notes on the Lithika of Poseidippos
- 26. The Hesiodic Catalogue and Hellenistic Poetry
- 27. The prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes (‘Pseudo-Scymnus’)
- 28. Sweet nothings – Callimachus fr. 1.9 –12 revisited
- 29. The Reputation of Callimachus
- 30. Hesiod, Callimachus, and the invention of morality
- On Coming After - Part 2
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Comedy and Performance
- 31. The Comic Chorus in the fourth century
- 32. Philemon, Plautus and the Trinummus
- 33. The Aulularia of Plautus and its Greek original
- 34. Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus
- 35. ‘Acting down’: the ideology of Hellenistic performance
- 36. Showing and telling: notes from the boundary
- Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire
- 37. Generic consciousness in the Orphic Argonautica?
- 38. Aspects of technique and style in the Periegesis of Dionysius
- 39. The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of Hellenistic poetry
- The Ancient Novel
- 40. History and Historicity in the Romance of Chariton
- 41. Longus and Plato
- 42. Growing up in the ancient novels: a response
- 43. The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation?
- 44. ‘Philip the Philosopher’ on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus
- 45. Plato’s Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction
- 46. Isis and the Language of Aesop
- 47. The curious incident …: polypragmosyne and the ancient novel
- Backmatter