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Scholia in Theocritum vetera
Pastoral poetry, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Theocritus --- Théocrite --- Theokritos
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"Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres), but at the same time forward-looking and experimental, willing to make use of previous forms of writing in exciting new ways. The author examines Alexandria's poets in turn. She discusses the strikingly avant-garde Aetia of Callimachus; the idealized pastoral forms of Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, the Argonautica, with its impressive combination of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She shows that all three poets were innovators, even while they looked to the past for inspiration: drawing upon Homer, Hesiod, Pindar and the lyric poets, they emphasized stories and material that were entirely relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment."--Page 4 of cover.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Poetics. --- History and criticism. --- Apollonius, --- Callimachus. --- Posidippus, --- Theocritus.
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Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Pastoral poetry, Classical --- Country life in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Poésie pastorale classique --- Vie rurale dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Theocritus. --- Virgil. --- Myth in literature --- History and criticism --- Theocritus --- Virgil --- Poésie pastorale classique --- Vie rurale dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Classical pastoral poetry --- Classical poetry --- Country life in literature --- Pastoral poetry, Classical - History and criticism --- Theocritus - Idylls --- Virgil - Bucolica
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The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fresh reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between author and fictional creation in the poem and its importance for the later pastoral tradition. Close readings of Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax and the Lament for Bion are supplemented with parallels from modern contemporary fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa.
Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Theocritus --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus-at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh-is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives. Combining the Greek text, an English translation, a full line-by-line commentary, and extensive introductory studies of the poem's historical and literary context, this volume also offers a wide-ranging and far-reaching consideration of the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age. As the first detailed account of this important poem to show how Theocritus might have drawn on the pharaonic traditions of Egypt as well as earlier Greek poetry, this book affords unique insight into how praise poetry for Ptolemy and his wife may have helped to negotiate the adaptation of Greek culture that changed conditions of the new Hellenistic world. Invaluable for its clear translation and its commentary on genre, dialect, diction, and historical reference in relation to Theocritus's Encomium, the book is also significant for what it reveals about the poem's cultural and social contexts and about Theocritus' devices for addressing his several readerships. COVER IMAGE: The image on the front cover of this book is incorrectly identified on the jacket flap. The correct caption is: Gold Oktadrachm depicting Ptolemy II and Arsinoe (mid-third century BCE; by permission of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt --- Theocritus --- Ptolemy --- Ptolemaeus --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus --- Poetry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- alexandria. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient greece. --- aristophanes. --- arsinoe ii. --- art. --- augustan poetry. --- classical studies. --- clouds. --- egypt. --- encomium. --- genre studies. --- greek culture. --- greek poetry. --- greek world. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic poetry. --- hellenistic world. --- heracles. --- homeric hymn. --- hymn. --- king. --- latin poetry. --- literary criticism. --- monarchy. --- mythology. --- patronage. --- patrons. --- pharaoh. --- pharaonic traditions. --- philadelphus. --- pithom stele. --- poetic meter. --- poetic tribute. --- poetry. --- poets. --- praise. --- ptolemaic dynasty. --- ptolemy ii. --- reign. --- ruler. --- theocritus. --- third century. --- zeus.
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This study investigates the reception of contemporary religion in Hellenistic poetry and analyses the treatment of the cult of Artemis—taken as paradigmatic—in Theocritus’ second Idyll and Callimachus’ Hymns . Both Theocritus and Callimachus display a lively interest in contemporary religion in all its facets and each dwells upon an aspect of the cult of Artemis absent in earlier poetry: Theocritus depicts her as a goddess of magic, and Callimachus as a city-goddess. These are precisely the features of her cult that gained prominence in the Hellenistic period. The monograph aims to advance scholarly understanding of the integration and transformation of religious motifs in Hellenistic literature. Die vorliegende Monographie untersucht die Rezeption der zeitgenössischen Religion in der hellenistischen Dichtung, und zwar am Beispiel des Artemiskultes, wie er sich im zweiten Idyll des Theokrit und in den Hymnen des Kallimachos abbildet. Die Analyse zeigt, daß beide Dichter nicht nur großes Interesse an der zeitgenössischen Religion in allen ihren Facetten haben, sondern darüber hinaus jeweils Aspekte des Artemiskultes akzentuieren, die in der hellenistischen Zeit besonders markant sind: Theokrit zeichnet Artemis als eine Göttin der Magie, wogegen Kallimachos Artemis’ Zuständigkeitsbereich ausdifferenziert, wobei er neben der Natur und Jagd vor allem die Stadtgöttin in den Vordergrund stellt. Neben der poetischen Inszenierung der religiösen Phänomene liegt der besondere Schwerpunkt auf der literarischen Umsetzung und neuen Kontextualisierung im Gedichtcorpus.
Artemis (Greek deity) --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Religion and poetry. --- Artémis (Divinité grecque) --- Poésie grecque hellénistique --- Religion et poésie --- Cult. --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- Culte --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Theocritus. --- Callimachus. --- Artemis --- Artémis (Divinité grecque) --- Poésie grecque hellénistique --- Religion et poésie --- Thèmes, motifs --- Religion and poetry --- Poetry and religion --- Poetry --- Hellenistic Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Cult --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Religious aspects. --- Artemis (Greek deity) - Cult. --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism. --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic - Themes, motives.
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Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes.
English literature --- Homosexuality and literature --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Classicism --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Male homosexuality in literature. --- Pastoral poetry, Classical --- Poetics --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism --- Male authors --- Appreciation --- Theocritus --- Virgil --- Vergilius Maro, P. --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- Vergilius --- Vergil --- Virgile --- Virgilio Máron, Publio --- Virgilius Maro, Publius --- Vergili Maronis, Publius --- Virgilio Marone, P. --- Vergilīĭ --- Vergílio --- Wergiliusz --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P. --- Virgilio --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P. --- Virgil Maro, P. --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil --- Pseudo Virgilio --- Virgilio Marón, Publio --- Bhārjila --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Marone, Publio Virgilio --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra
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When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively.The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context-within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"-no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.
Comparative literature --- Egyptian poetry --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Language and culture --- Poetics --- Egyptian and Greek. --- Greek and Egyptian. --- History and criticism. --- History --- -Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- -Language and culture --- -Literature, Comparative --- -Poetics --- -Poetry --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Hellenistic Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Egyptian literature --- History and criticism --- Egyptian and Greek --- Greek and Egyptian --- -Technique --- Ptolemaic dynasty --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- -Intellectual life --- Poésie grecque hellénistique --- -Poésie égyptienne --- Littérature comparée --- Langage et culture --- Histoire et critique --- Grecque et égyptienne --- Egyptienne et grecque --- Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Alexandrie (Egypte) --- Intellectual life. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Poetry --- Technique --- Ptolemies, --- alexandrian court. --- alexandrian poetry. --- alexandrian poets. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient greece. --- apollonius. --- argonautica. --- callimachus. --- egypt. --- egyptian culture. --- egyptian history. --- egyptian people. --- egyptian poetry. --- greek poetry. --- helen. --- hellenism. --- heracles. --- hiero of syracuse. --- hymns. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- pharoah. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- political values. --- ptolemaic court. --- ptolemies. --- ptolemy philadelphus. --- regencies. --- royalty. --- rulers. --- theocritus. --- theogonies.
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