Marijn S Visscher

Beyond Alexandria

Literature and Empire in the Seleucid World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Alexandria argues for the existence of a distinctive Seleucid literature, with its own preferred genres and thematic concerns. It proposes new readings of these authors and argues that they can be understood only in the wider political context, especially in relation to the Ptolemies as the Seleucids' main rivals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190059088
• ISBN-10: 0190059087
• Artikelnr.: 58698362

Autorenporträt

Marijn S. Visscher is an independent scholar of Greek literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Overview map
Introduction
Introduction
Seleucid literature
Chapter 1: Mapping the Realm
Introduction
Mapping the Realm: Mental Maps and the Spectre of World Empire
On the Hellenistic Stage: Knowledge and Appropriation in Geography
Chapter 2: Babylon, City of Kings
Introduction
The Kings and the City
The Voice of the Local Priests: Manetho and the Ptolemies
Chapter 3: Seleucid Crisis and the Ptolemaic Response
Introduction
Cultural Polemic: the Lock of Berenice and Barbarian Asia
Meta-poetics and Inter-state Rivalry
Chapter 4: Poets and Politics at the Court of Antiochus III
Introduction
Simonides: the Galatian Threat and the Struggle for Asia Minor
Euphorion of Chalcis and the Literary Court
Looking West: Hegesianax and the War with Rome
Conclusion
Bibliography