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This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius’ epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius’ Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics.

Tragik. --- Rezeption. --- Hellenismus. --- Griechisch. --- Tragödie. --- Versdichtung. --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic. --- Tragödie. --- History and criticism. --- Alexandrian aesthetics. --- Hellenistic poetry. --- tragedy. --- tragic.

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Greek mythology in literature --- Griekse mythologie in de literatuur --- Mythologie [Griekse ] in de literatuur --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Mythology [Greek ] in literature --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Poésie épique grecque --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Greek poetry --- Poésie épique grecque --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- History and criticism --- Epic poetry [Greek ] --- Greek poetry [Hellenistic ] --- Trojan War --- Literature and the war

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"Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity's foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus' work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet's reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus' profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art. Contributors are: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Annemarie Ambühl, Ewen Bowie, Brian W. Breed, Dee L. Clayman, Taylor S. Coughlan, Christophe Cusset, Frederick T. Griffiths, Thomas K. Hubbard, Richard Hunter, Alexandros Kampakoglou, Evangelos Karakasis, Jacqueline Klooster, David Konstan, Jan Kwapisz, Poulheria Kyriakou, Giulio Massimilla, Claudio Meliadò, Sarah Miles, Andrew D. Morrison, Lara Pagani, Viola Palmieri, Juan C. Pellicer, Ivana Petrovic, Tom Phillips, Évelyne Prioux, Joseph D. Reed, Alexander Sens, Evina Sistakou, Karl-Heinz Stanzel, William G. Thalmann, Olga Tribulato"--

Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Hellenistic Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- History and criticism --- Theocritus --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- Critique et interprétation --- Poésie grecque hellénistique

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Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature. 

Greek language --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern) --- Epigrams, Greek --- Style --- Diction --- History and criticism --- Epigrams, Greek. --- Greek epigrams --- Greek language - Style - Congresses --- Greek language - Diction - Congresses --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern) - History and criticism - Congresses --- Epigrams, Greek - History and criticism - Congresses --- Hardback --- Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft --- Greek epigram --- diction --- inscriptions --- literary style --- PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke --- 1553: Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Altertum --- Greek epigram. --- diction. --- inscriptions. --- literary style. --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern). --- Epigramm. --- Grec (Langue) --- Griechisch. --- Literarische Form. --- Literarischer Stil. --- Mundartliteratur. --- Épigrammes grecques --- Criticism, Textual. --- History and criticism. --- Diction. --- Style. --- Histoire et critique.

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