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
... 3.5 3.6 Menander Callimachus Apollonius of Rhodes Theocritus and the Other Bucolic Poets Didactic Poetry Epigrams 50 50 60 74 84 97 106 3.7 Dramatic Poetry 3.8 Parodic and Philosophical Literature 3.9 Polybius Contents.
... 3.5 3.6 Menander Callimachus Apollonius of Rhodes Theocritus and the Other Bucolic Poets Didactic Poetry Epigrams 50 50 60 74 84 97 106 3.7 Dramatic Poetry 3.8 Parodic and Philosophical Literature 3.9 Polybius Contents.
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Kathryn Gutzwiller. 3.7 Dramatic Poetry 3.8 Parodic and Philosophical Literature 3.9 Polybius 3.10 Technical Prose Writing 4 Topics in Hellenistic Literature 4.1 Learning and Innovation 4.2 Book Culture and Performance 4.3 Social and ...
Kathryn Gutzwiller. 3.7 Dramatic Poetry 3.8 Parodic and Philosophical Literature 3.9 Polybius 3.10 Technical Prose Writing 4 Topics in Hellenistic Literature 4.1 Learning and Innovation 4.2 Book Culture and Performance 4.3 Social and ...
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... dramatic poetry, produced for consumption by the populace at large, had one last notable practitioner, the comic poet Menander. With his reworking of earlier tragic and comic plots to form comedies of manners, focusing on familial ...
... dramatic poetry, produced for consumption by the populace at large, had one last notable practitioner, the comic poet Menander. With his reworking of earlier tragic and comic plots to form comedies of manners, focusing on familial ...
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... Designed on the Athenian model, though visually quite different, the Attalid building program on the citadel at Pergamum, with structures ascending on different levels, made dramatic. 12 HISTORY AND CULTURE 1.4 Attalid Pergamum.
... Designed on the Athenian model, though visually quite different, the Attalid building program on the citadel at Pergamum, with structures ascending on different levels, made dramatic. 12 HISTORY AND CULTURE 1.4 Attalid Pergamum.
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... dramatic and pathetic treatment given a noble enemy. Just below, Eumenes II placed the great Altar of Zeus (now reconstructed in the Berlin Pergamum Museum), which was decorated on the outside with a frieze depicting the battle of the ...
... dramatic and pathetic treatment given a noble enemy. Just below, Eumenes II placed the great Altar of Zeus (now reconstructed in the Berlin Pergamum Museum), which was decorated on the outside with a frieze depicting the battle of the ...
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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