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Author Stephens, Susan A., author.

Title The poets of Alexandria / Susan A. Stephens.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  881 S43P    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 194 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Series Understanding classics
Understanding classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.
Summary "Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres), but at the same time forward-looking and experimental, willing to make use of previous forms of writing in exciting new ways. The author examines Alexandria's poets in turn. She discusses the strikingly avant-garde Aetia of Callimachus; the idealized pastoral forms of Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, the Argonautica, with its impressive combination of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She shows that all three poets were innovators, even while they looked to the past for inspiration: drawing upon Homer, Hesiod, Pindar and the lyric poets, they emphasized stories and material that were entirely relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Callimachus. Aetia.
Posidippus, of Pella, approximately 310 B.C.-approximately 240 B.C. Epigrams.
Theocritus.
Apollonius, Rhodius. Argonautica.
Theocritus. (OCoLC)fst00011272
Aetia (Callimachus) (OCoLC)fst01363656
Argonautica (Apollonius, Rhodius) (OCoLC)fst01357843
Epigrams (Posidippus, of Pella) (OCoLC)fst01399361
Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism.
Poetics.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic. (OCoLC)fst00947510
Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 1848858809 (paperback)
9781848858800 (paperback)
9781848858794 (Hardcover)
1848858795 (Hardcover)
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