On Coming After

Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception

Richard Hunter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 907 Seiten

2008
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-020441-4 (ISBN)

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This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (‘the ancient novel’), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purposes of literature, the intellectual context for ancient poetry, and the interaction of poetry and criticism. What emerges is not a literature shackled to the past and cowed by an ‘anxiety of influence’, but an energetic and constantly experimental engagement with both past and present.

Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2008
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 3
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1570 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Griechenland (Alt-G.), Literatur • Hardcover, Softcover / Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Late Antiquity) • Literature (Greek • Literature (Greek; Late Antiquity) • Literatur (Griechenland) • Literatur (Spätantike)
ISBN-10	3-11-020441-X / 311020441X
ISBN-13	978-3-11-020441-4 / 9783110204414
Zustand	Neuware