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100 1  Stephens, Susan A.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The poets of Alexandria /|cSusan A. Stephens. 
264  1 London :|bI.B. Tauris,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xiii, 194 pages :|bmaps ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Understanding classics 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and 
       index. 
520 8  "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. 
600 00 Callimachus.|tAetia. 
600 00 Posidippus,|cof Pella,|dapproximately 310 B.C.-
       approximately 240 B.C.|tEpigrams. 
600 00 Theocritus. 
600 00 Apollonius,|cRhodius.|tArgonautica. 
600 07 Theocritus.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00011272 
630 07 Aetia (Callimachus)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01363656 
630 07 Argonautica (Apollonius, Rhodius)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01357843 
630 07 Epigrams (Posidippus, of Pella)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01399361 
650  0 Greek poetry, Hellenistic|zEgypt|zAlexandria|xHistory and 
       criticism. 
650  0 Poetics. 
650  7 Greek poetry, Hellenistic.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00947510 
650  7 Poetics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01067682 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
830  0 Understanding classics. 
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