Hellenistic poetry in context
By: edited by M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker
Series: Hellenistica Groningana -- 20; Hellenistica Groningana -- 20.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9789042929852
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Hellenistic Greek poetry; Gedichten; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Godsdienst; 18.43 ancient Greek literature; Congresses; Hellenisme; Griechisch; Lyrik
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text in English with cited passages in Greek.
Table of contents: title: Inscribed epigrams in and out of sequence / Peter Bing; title: Courtly love, stars and power. The Queen in 3rd-century royal couples, through poetry and epigraphic texts / Stefano Caneva; title: Callimachus' hymn 5 and an Alexandrian audience / Keyne Cheshire; title: Historical contexts for two Aitia from book III: "Acontius & Cydippe" (frr. 67-75 Pf.) and "Phrygius & Pieria" (frr. 80-83 Pf.) / Dee L. Clayman; title: The poet and the prophetess: Lycophron's Alexandra in context / Andreas Fountoulakis; title: Stones as books: the layout of Hellenistic inscribed poems / Valentina Garulli; title: Honestus' Heliconian Flowers: Epigrammatic Offerings to the Muses at Thespiae / Regina Höschele; title: Kraters, Myrtle and Hellenistic poetry / Jan Kwapisz; title: The spear and the ideology of kingship in Hellenistic poetry / André R. Looijenga; title: Anchored in time: The date in Apollonius' Argonautica / Jackie Murray; title: 'In such a night': Hellenistic magic in the Argonautica / Amanda Regan; title: Trick and trade? The Eretrian 'Hymn to the Idaean Dactyls' (IG XII, 9. 259) / Ingo Schaaf; title: The dawning of a golden age: images of peace and abundance in Alexandrian court poetry in relation to Ptolemaic imperial ideology / Rolf Strootman.