A companion to Hellenistic literature
By: edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers.
Contributors: Clauss, James Joseph.; Cuypers, Martine.
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405136792
Subjects: Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers; title: From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine; title: Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman; title: Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens; title: Education / Jessica Wissmann; title: The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; title: Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder; title: Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray; title: Epigram / Jon S. Bruss; title: Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken; title: Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl; title: Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch; title: Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi; title: Aratus / Katharina Volk; title: Nicander / Enrico Magnelli; title: The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne; title: Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed; title: Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel; title: Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito; title: Menander's comedy / Susan Lape; title: Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens; title: Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers; title: Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller; title: Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White; title: From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing; title: Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh; title: Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen; title: Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer; title: Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild; title: From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss.