On Coming After : Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception.
This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter?s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus,...
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2009
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| Series: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Preface; Introduction; On Coming After; 1. Apollo and the Argonauts:Two notes on Ap. Rhod. 2, 669 -719; 2. Medea's flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica; 3. 'Short on heroics': Jason in the Argonautica; 4. Winged Callimachus; 5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil; 6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius; 7. Callimachus and Heraclitus; 8. Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena; 9. Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the Phainomena of Aratus; 10. The Presentation of Herodas' Mimiamboi.
- 11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 6512. Plautus and Herodas; 13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonisv. 55; 14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15; 15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica; 16. Callimachus swings (frr. 178 and 43 Pf.); 17. Before and after epic: Theocritus, Idyll 25; 18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus' iambic programme; 19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus; 20. The Poetics of Narrative in.
