Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter

Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2004 examination of Hellenistic poetry and of its reception at Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780521203609
• ISBN-10: 0521203600
• Artikelnr.: 32467235

Autorenporträt

Marco Fantuzzi is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Macerata and at the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Florence. His published works include Bionis Smyrnaei Adonis Epitaphium (Francis Cairns, 1985) and Ricerche Su Apollonio Rodio: Diacronie della Dizione Epica (Rome, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Performance and genre
2. The aetiology of Callimachus' Aitia
3. The Argonautica of Apollonius and epic tradition
4. Theocritus and the bucolic genre
5. Epic in a minor key
6. The style of Hellenistic epic
7. The epigram
8. The languages of praise
9. Hellenistic drama
10. Roman epilogue.