The Development of the Epyllion Genre Through the Hellenistic and Roman Periods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of the Epyllion Genre Through the Hellenistic and Roman Periods write by Carol U. Merriam. This book was released on 2001. The Development of the Epyllion Genre Through the Hellenistic and Roman Periods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The epyllion as a genre was developed in the Hellenistic period (and continued into Roman times) in order to show what else was happening while traditional heroic stories, always narrated in epics with particular conventions, were happening. The epyllion challenges these conventions in ways that make it a genre in its own right. This study examines its development through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, focusing on unheroic and female characters.
Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry write by Marco Fantuzzi. This book was released on 2005-01-13. Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this revised and expanded translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome are explored allowing both sides of this literary practice to be appreciated. Genres as diverse as epic and epigram are considered from a historical perspective, in the full range of their deep-level structures, providing a different perspective on the poetry and its influence at Rome. Some of the most famous poetry of the age such as Callimachus' Aitia and Apollonius' Argonautica is examined. In addition, full attention is paid to the poetry of encomium, in particular the newly published epigrams of Posidippus, and Hellenistic poetics, notably Philodemus.
A Guide to Hellenistic Literature
A Guide to Hellenistic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Hellenistic Literature write by Kathryn Gutzwiller. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC Provides overviews of the social, political, intellectual and literary historical contexts in which Hellenistic literature was produced Introduces the major writers and genres of the period Provides information about style, meter and languages to aid readers with no prior knowledge of the language in understanding technical aspects of literary Greek Distinctive in its coverage of current issues in Hellenistic criticism, including audience reception, the political and social background, and Hellenistic theories of literature
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception write by Manuel Baumbach. This book was released on 2015-03-20. Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the late 18th century. The contributions in this book not only re-examine some important (and some lesser known) Greek and Latin primary texts, but also critically reconsider the theoretical discourses attached to it, and also sketch their literary and scholarly reception in the Byzantine and Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age.
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Hellenistic Literature write by James J. Clauss. This book was released on 2014-01-28. A Companion to Hellenistic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature in 30 newly commissioned essays explores the social and intellectual contexts of literature production in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature. Provides a wide ranging critical examination of Hellenistic literature, including the works of well-respected poets alongside lesser-known historical, philosophical, and scientific prose of the period Explores how the indigenous literatures of Hellenized lands influenced Greek literature and how Greek literature influenced Jewish, Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Roman literary works
