A Companion to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Dust jacket bumped, foot cut slightly soiled, last page detached from block but connected with endpaper, otherwise good and very clean. - Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature explores, in 30 newly commissioned essays, the social and intellectual contexts of the production of literature in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and earlier literature. The volume covers the works of well-respected poets alongside lesser-known historical, philosophical, and scientific prose authors. Critical essays on the Jewish, Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Roman literature of the period explore the impact of Hellenism on neighboring cultures and vice versa. In addition, serious attention is given throughout the book to Hellenistic texts which in surveys of Greek literature are rarely discussed within their historical context. Structured in a clear and accessible style by two highly respected scholars, this Companion expands the way in which Hellenistic literature is perceived and studied. It is the ideal resource for scholars and students of Classics, Ancient History, and Literature. - Contents: Introduction: James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers -- From Alexander to Augustus: Andrew Erskine -- Literature and the Kings: Rolf Strootman -- Ptolemaic Alexandria: Susan Stephens -- Education: Jessica Wissmann -- The Prefigured Muse: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Poetics: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Callimachus� Aetia: Annette Harder -- Hellenistic Elegy: Out from Under the Shadow of Callimachus: Jackie Murray -- Epigram: Jon S. Brass -- Apollonius� Argonautica: Adolf Kohnken -- Narrative Hexameter Poetry: Annemarie Ambithl -- Hymns and Encomia: Anthony W. Bulloch -- Sung Poetry: The Case of Inscribed Paeans: Marco Fantuzzi -- Aratus: Katharina Volk -- Nicander: Enrico Magnelli -- The Bucolic Fiction of Theocritus: Mark Payne -- Idyll 6 and the Development of Bucolic after Theocritus: J. D. Reed -- lambos and Parody: Ruth Scodel -- Herodas and the Mime: Elena Esposito -- Menander�s Comedy: Susan Lape -- Hellenistic Tragedy and Lycophron�s Alexandra: Alexander Sens -- Historiography, Rhetoric, and Science: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Prose: Martine Cuypers -- Literary Criticism: Kathryn J. Gutzwiller -- Philosophy after Aristotle: Stephen A. White -- From Polybius to Dionysius: The Decline and Fall of Hellenistic Historiography: Alain M. Gowing -- Prose Fiction: Tim Whitmarsh -- Jewish Literature: Erich S. Gruen -- Egyptian Literature: Jacco Dieleman and Ian S. Moyer -- Literature in Western Asia: Silke Knippschild -- From the Head of Zeus: The Beginnings of Roman Literature: James J. Clauss. ISBN 9781405136792