A Guide to Hellenistic LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 280 pages This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.
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Page vii
... Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Menander ...
... Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Menander ...
Page xi
... Seleucids, Attalids, and Ptolemies. The second chapter provides basic information about the new aesthetics that informed Hellenistic literature. It includes a section on style, meter, and diction, and concludes with an overview of the ...
... Seleucids, Attalids, and Ptolemies. The second chapter provides basic information about the new aesthetics that informed Hellenistic literature. It includes a section on style, meter, and diction, and concludes with an overview of the ...
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... Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. Another culturally important kingdom, which gradually seceded from the Seleucids during the middle decades of the third century, was that of the Attalids at Pergamum, a city of Mysia in ...
... Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. Another culturally important kingdom, which gradually seceded from the Seleucids during the middle decades of the third century, was that of the Attalids at Pergamum, a city of Mysia in ...
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... Seleucid Asia Seleucus I left to his son and co-regent Antiochus I (ruled 281–261) an immense empire, extending from Bactria in the east to Asia Minor in the west. To a much greater extent than the Antigonids or even the Ptolemies, the ...
... Seleucid Asia Seleucus I left to his son and co-regent Antiochus I (ruled 281–261) an immense empire, extending from Bactria in the east to Asia Minor in the west. To a much greater extent than the Antigonids or even the Ptolemies, the ...
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... Seleucid control during much of the third century. The Attalids in Pergamum, as allies of the Romans, succeeded in expanding eastward into Seleucid satrapies in Asia Minor in the early second century. One important effect of Seleucid ...
... Seleucid control during much of the third century. The Attalids in Pergamum, as allies of the Romans, succeeded in expanding eastward into Seleucid satrapies in Asia Minor in the early second century. One important effect of Seleucid ...
Contents
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2 Aesthetics and Style | 26 |
3 Authors and Genres | 50 |
4 Topics in Hellenistic Literature | 168 |
Notes | 223 |
Chronological Tables | 228 |
Suggested Reading | 230 |
Bibliography | 239 |
Index | 251 |
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