Brill's companion to Theocritus / / edited by Poulheria Kyriakou, Evina Sistakou, Antonios Rengakos.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Kyriakou, Poulheria,; Sistakou, Evina,; Rengakos, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity's foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus' work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet's reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus' profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos -- Copyright Page / Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos -- Preface / Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos -- Notes on Contributors / Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos -- Introduction Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus / Alexandros Kampakoglou -- Chapter 1 A Poet's Lives / Tom Phillips -- Chapter 2 Theocritus' Textual History and Tradition / Claudio Meliadò -- Chapter 3 Theocritus' Dialects / Olga Tribulato -- Chapter 4 "Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel": The Forms of Theocritean Poetry / Jan Kwapisz -- Chapter 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry / Giulio Massimilla -- Chapter 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the "Everyday" in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15 / Sarah Miles -- Chapter 7 Theocritus' Hymns and "Epyllia": Poems 13, 22, 24, 26 / Alexander Sens -- Chapter 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of "Theocritus" / Taylor S. Coughlan -- Chapter 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer / Richard Hunter -- Chapter 10 Pan's Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus / Alexandros Kampakoglou -- Chapter 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus' Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns) / Christophe Cusset -- Chapter 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus / Lara Pagani -- Chapter 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus' Idylls : A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης / Evina Sistakou -- Chapter 14 Theocritus' Contest Poems / Karl-Heinz Stanzel -- Chapter 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus / Jacqueline Klooster -- Chapter 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts / Évelyne Prioux -- Chapter 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus / A.D. Morrison -- Chapter 18 Theocritean Spaces / William G. Thalmann -- Chapter 19 Theocritus and the Rural World / Viola Palmieri -- Chapter 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus / Annemarie Ambühl -- Chapter 21 Eros and the Pastoral / David Konstan -- Chapter 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Chapter 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus / Dee L. Clayman -- Chapter 24 Theocritus' Intercultural Poetics / Frederick T. Griffiths -- Chapter 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus / Ivana Petrovic -- Chapter 26 Women in Theocritus / Poulheria Kyriakou -- Chapter 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus / Poulheria Kyriakou -- Chapter 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil's Eclogues / Brian W. Breed -- Chapter 29 The King's Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry / Joseph D. Reed -- Chapter 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition / Evangelos Karakasis -- Chapter 31 Theocritus and Longus / Ewen Bowie -- Chapter 32 "Simple Theocritus" from the 16th to 18th Centuries / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Chapter 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry / Juan C. Pellicer -- Indexes / Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos.