Tragic Failures : : Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic / / Evina Sistakou.
This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
38 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 249 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: From Tragedy to the Tragic
- 1. Tragedy, from Athens to Alexandria
- 2. The Metaclassical Tragic
- 3. Alexandrian Tragedy
- 4. Callimachus Displaces the Tragic
- 5. Redefining the Tragic in the Idylls of Theocritus
- 6. Tragedy into Epic in Apollonius’ Argonautica
- 7. In the Metatragic Cosmos of the Alexandra
- 8. The Romantic Tragic
- Conclusion: Tragic Failures and Hellenistic Challenges
- Bibliography
- Index