Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

Supplementary Content

• Table of contents
• Klappentext

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Additional Authors

• Clauss, James Joseph.
• Cuypers, Martine.

Description

xxv, 550 p. : maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative Title

Hellenistic literature

Subjects

• Literatur
• Geschichte
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-31 v. Chr
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Hellenismus
• Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

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

PA3081

ISBN

• 9781405136792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405136790 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009025321

OCLC

417443926

Title

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

Imprint

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

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

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

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Table of contents

Klappentext

Chronological Term

Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-31 v. Chr.

Geschichte

Added Author

Clauss, James Joseph.

Cuypers, Martine.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3081 .C63 2010