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Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the
related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by
offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek
literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one
contributions authored by international scholars. The authors
explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical
variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial
vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses
of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns,
arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in
sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary
epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a
book intended for classicists who want to review the connection
between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation,
as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and
linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of
literature.
This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy
and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry.
The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies
fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and
as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars
of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the
classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic
was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the
strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good
tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled
to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic
genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea
in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius' epic
Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry
and in Parthenius' Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating
insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the
context of Alexandrian aesthetics.
This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of
international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an
attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual
allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors
combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory,
aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic
texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a variety of
texts which include not only poems by the major Alexandrians but
also prose works, epigrams, epigraphic material and scholia.
Perspectives range from linguistic analysis to interdisciplinary
studies, whereas post-classical literature is also seen against the
background of the cultural and ideological contexts of the era.
Besides reviewing preconceptions of Hellenistic scholarship, this
volume aims at providing fresh insights into Hellenistic literature
and aesthetics.
This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of
international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an
attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual
allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors
combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory,
aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic
texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a variety of
texts which include not only poems by the major Alexandrians but
also prose works, epigrams, epigraphic material and scholia.
Perspectives range from linguistic analysis to interdisciplinary
studies, whereas post-classical literature is also seen against the
background of the cultural and ideological contexts of the era.
Besides reviewing preconceptions of Hellenistic scholarship, this
volume aims at providing fresh insights into Hellenistic literature
and aesthetics.
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