Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads

Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts

Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou, Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783110554922
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110368130
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

Abraham 1, 2 – 3, 4 – 5, 6

Achaemenid royal propaganda 1– 2

Achilles 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6

Addaeus 1–2

Aeschylus 1 – 2, 3, 4, 5

aesthetic materialism 1

aesthetic moment 1 – 2

Agamemnon 1–2

Agatharchides 1

Aglaia 1

Aiolus 1

Ajax 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8

Alexander the Great 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8 – 9

Alexander Polyhistor 1, 2, 3 –4

Alexandria 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 6, 7 – 8, 9, 10, 11 – 12, 13 – 14

Alexandrianism 1–2

Anacreon 1, 2

Anadyomene (painting by Apelles) 1 – 2

Antipater of Sidon 1, 2, 3–4, 5 – 6

Anyte 1

Aphrodite 1 – 2, 3, 4

Aphrodite pselioumene 1, 2

Apollodorus of Cyrene 1

Apollonius of Rhodes

– Argonautica 1, 2 – 3, 4, 5, 6 – 7, 8 – 9, 10 – 11, 12, 13 – 14, 15, 16–17

– Lesbou ktisis 1

apple 1–2

Aragon, Louis 1

Aratus 1–2

– Hipparchus’ treatment of 1

Archilochus 1, 2

Archimedes 1 – 2, 3 – 4

Aristarchus 1

Aristophanes 1–2, 3, 4

Aristophanes of Byzantium 1, 2, 3, 4 –5

Aristotle 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6–7, 8, 9 – 10, 11 – 12, 13 – 14

art 1–2

Asclepiades 1

Asianism 1, 2

Athena 1, 2 – 3

Atticism 1, 2

author 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6

Bacchylides 1

barbarian 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5

Bion

– Epitaph for Adonis 1 – 2, 3

Boeotos 1

bucolic corpus 1 – 2

bucolic poetry 1 – 2

Callimachus 1–2, 3 – 4, 5, 6 – 7, 8, 9, 10 – 11, 12, 13

– Acontius and Cydippe 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 6, 7, 8, 9

– Aetia 1 – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8 – 9

– Bath of Pallas 1

– Hecale 1 – 2

– Hymns 1

– Hymn to Delos 1 – 2

– Hymn to Zeus 1, 2

– Iambi 1 – 2

–Ibis 1 – 2

– Lock of Berenice 1

– Victory of Berenice 1 – 2, 3 – 4

– Victory of Sosibius 1, 2–3

– first person in 1 – 2, 3

– game in 1–2

– handling of polemic 1, 2–3

– imagination and metre 1–2

– knowledge in 1–2

– his poetry and prose 1 – 2

Calvus 1

cameo 1–2

Cassandra 1 – 2, 3 – 4

catastrophe 1, 2 – 3

Catullus 1–2

Cavafy, Constantine 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5–6

Ceos 1–2

Cephalas 1

character 1 – 2, 3– 4, 5, 6– 7, 8 – 9

Cicero 1, 2

Clytemnestra 1–2

Cnidian Aphrodite (sculpture by Praxiteles) 1 – 2

comedy 1, 2 – 3

Cornelia 1

Cos 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5

cosmetics 1

Cow (sculpture by Myron) 1, 2 – 3

Damagetus 1

Daphnis 1

Darius 1–2, 3–4

decadence 1, 2

detachment 1–2

dialect

– Attic-Ionic 1, 2 – 3, 4 – 5, 6 – 7

– dialect mixture 1 – 2, 3

– Doric 1, 2 – 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7–8, 9

– epic-lonic 1, 2, 3

– in epigram 1–2

dialogue in prose 1, 2–3

didactic poetry 1 – 2

– poetry as instruction 1–2

– and scientific prose 1–2

– ‘teacher-student’ constellation 1–2

Diodorus 1–2

Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 2

Dorus 1–2

‘double structure’ tragedy 1–2, 3

Echedorus 1

ecphrasis 1, 2 – 3

ecphrastic epigram 1 – 2

ego-language 1–2

Egypt 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5, 6 – 7, 8 – 9, 10 – 11

elegy 1–2

– elegiac tradition 1–2

– gnomic element 1–2

– ‘instructive banquet’ theme 1–2

– Latin love elegy 1 – 2, 3

– military and paraenetic elements 1 – 2

– paederastic element 1–2

– proverbs 1

– sympotic conversation 1–2

– wine drinking 1–2

Eliot, T.S. 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 6

ellipsis 1, 2

emotion 1–2

– anger 1

– dislocation of 1

– in dreams 1–2

– fear 1, 2

– fossilization of 1

– helplessness 1 – 2

– loneliness 1 – 2

– love 1, 2–3, 4 –5

– physical manifestation of 1 –2

Empedocles 1–2

Ephesus 1–2

epic 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7

Epicurus 1, 2

epitaph 1, 2, 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 – 11

epyllion 1–2

Erinna 1

Eros 1 – 2, 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7

Eros of Thespiae (sculpture by Praxiteles) 1

Euphorion 1

Euripides 1, 2, 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 – 11

Europa 1–2

Eurotas (sculpture by Eutychides) 1, 2

Eusebius 1, 2 – 3

Eutychides 1, 2

exemplum 1, 2

extremity in poetry 1–2

Ezechiel 1

feeling 1–2

fiction

– in poetry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

– in prose 1–2

fountain 1–2

‘future reflexive’ 1

Galen 1, 2 – 3

Galene 1–2

garden 1–2

gem 1–2, 3–4

genre 1–2

– and authorial language 1–2

– contamination of 1–2

– reconstruction of 1

geography 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5

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Table of contents

• Trends in Classics — Supplementary Volumes
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• I. Genres
• II. Style and Narrative
• III. Aesthetics
• IV. Scholarship
• V. Contexts
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index