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This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one
of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin
literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient
literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus
not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how
they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more
broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the
essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and
historical engagement with the literature of the past from the
period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical
Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic.
Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After
(Berlin 2008).
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.
Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of
history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely
anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral
values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as
on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of
these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first
modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of
syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by
sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full
introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context
within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive
edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate
students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading
practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can
do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a
world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather
alien to those brought up in the highly sophisticated world of
modern literary theory and criticism. The full Introduction and
Commentary, by two of the world's leading scholars in the field,
trace the origins and intellectual affiliations of Plutarch's
method and fully illustrate the background to each of his examples.
As such this book may serve as an introduction to the whole subject
of ancient reading practices and literary criticism. The Commentary
also pays particular attention to grammar, syntax and style, and
sets this essay within the context of Plutarch's thought and
writing more generally.
Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which
survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous
story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops
after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just
about satyr-drama, but also about the reception and adaptation of
Homer in classical Athens; the brutal savagery of the Homeric
monster is here replaced by an ironised presentation of Athenian
social custom. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully
explained, and there is a sophisticated literary discussion of the
play. This edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates
and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to
scholars.
This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception
of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these
moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic
literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient
ideas about didactic poetry, relying not so much on explicit
critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and used from the
earliest period of reception onwards. Other chapters consider
Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides,
in the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, in the
Aesopic tradition, and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and
Lucian; there is also a groundbreaking study of Plutarch's
extensive commentary on the Works and Days and an account of
ancient ideas of Hesiod's linguistic style. This is a major and
innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod's remarkable poem
and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.
Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter
builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of
literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular
attention to the interplay of criticism and creativity by not
treating criticism in isolation from the works which the critics
discussed. Attention is given both to the development of a history
of criticism, as far as our sources allow, and to the constant
recurrence of similar themes across the centuries. At the head of
the book stands the contest of Aeschylus and Euripides in
Aristophanes' Frogs which foreshadows more of the subsequent
critical tradition than is often realised. Other chapters are
devoted to ancient reflection on Greek and Roman comedy, to the
Augustan critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus, to 'Longinus', On the
Sublime, and to Plutarch. All Greek and Latin is translated.
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the
context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and
performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book
traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the
near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way
in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined,
the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic tyrants,
and on into the fluid mobility of imperial and late antique
culture. The emphasis is both on why poets travelled, and on how
local communities used the skills of these outsiders for their own
purposes. Wandering poets are also set within the wider context of
ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation between
communities and are seen as one particularly powerful manifestation
of a feature of ancient life which is too often overlooked.
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest
figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its
evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore
children to the gods. In this collection a team of international
scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning,
significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the
organization and structure of the poem, its social and political
context, its relation to other early epic and Hesiodic poetry, its
place in the development of a pan-Hellenic consciousness, and
attitudes to women. The wider influence of the Catalogue is
considered in chapters on Pindar and the lyric tradition, on
Hellenistic poetry, and on the poem's reception at Rome. This
collection provides a significant approach to the study of the
Catalogue.
Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of
Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous
Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic,
especially Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the
Argonauts' return to Greece with the Golden Fleece, their
nightmarish trips through the uncharted rivers of central Europe
and the desert wastes of North Africa, the terrible killing of
Medea's brother, and the anguish of the young girl which
foreshadows her bloody future. This is the first modern commentary
in English. Problems of syntax and language are fully explained,
and there is a sophisticated discussion of the poem as literature.
It will be useful for advanced undergraduates and graduate students
studying Greek poetry, as well as of interest to scholars.
Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this
book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems'
reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's
importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the
geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the
literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the
gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical
approaches to Homer, Homer in the satires of Plutarch and Lucian,
and how Homer shaped ideas about the power of music and song. This
is a major and innovative contribution to the study of the dominant
literary force in Greek culture and of the Greek literary
engagement with the past. Through the study of their influence and
reception, this book also sheds rich light on the Homeric poems
themselves. All Greek and Latin are translated.
This book focuses on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus, and examines how Theocritus uses the traditions of earlier Greek poetry to recreate past forms in a way that exploits the new conditions under which poetry was written in the third century BC. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these new discoveries are fully drawn on in a set of readings that will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.
Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and
how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's
richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as
rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence,
Plato's high style and the criticisms it attracted, and how
Petronius and Apuleius threaded Plato into their wonderfully comic
texts. The scene for these case studies is set through a thorough
examination of how the tradition constructed the relationship
between Plato and Homer, of how Plato adapted poetic forms of
imagery to his philosophical project in the Republic, of shared
techniques of representation between poet and philosopher and of
foreshadowings of later modes of criticism in his Ion. This is a
major contribution to Platonic studies, to the history of Platonic
reception from the fourth century BC to the third century AD and to
the literature of the Second Sophistic.
Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of
history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely
anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral
values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as
on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of
these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first
modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of
syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by
sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full
introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context
within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive
edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate
students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
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.
The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29
BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and
colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history
of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and
literary criticism, including On the Ancient Orators, On
Composition, and several letters. This volume examines how
Dionysius' critical and rhetorical works are connected with his
history of Rome, and the complex ways in which both components of
this dual project - rhetorical criticism and historiography - fit
into the social, intellectual, literary, cultural and political
world of Rome under Augustus. How does Dionysius' interpretation of
the earliest Romans resonate with the political reality of the
Principate? And how do his views relate to those of Cicero, Livy
and Horace? This volume casts new light on ancient rhetoric,
literary criticism, historiography and the literary culture of
Augustan Rome.
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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A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek
poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or
pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These
vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and
love are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition.
They were the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and their
influence can be seen in the work of Petrarch and Milton. Although
it is the pastoral poems for which he is chiefly famous, Theocritus
also wrote hymns to the gods, brilliant mime depictions of everyday
life, short narrative epics, epigrams, and encomia of the powerful.
The great variety of his poems illustrates the rich and flourishing
poetic culture of what was a golden age of Greek poetry.
Based on the original Greek text, this accurate and fluent
translation is the only edition of the complete Idylls currently in
print. It includes an accessible introduction by Richard Hunter
that describes what is known of Theocritus, the poetic tradition
and Theocritus' innovations and what exactly is meant by "bucolic"
poetry.
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