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Author:   Poulheria Kyriakou ,  Evina Sistakou ,  Antonios Rengakos
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   1.426kg
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9789004373556

ISBN 10:   9004373551
Pages:   832
Publication Date:   19 August 2021
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Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures Introduction: Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus  Alexandros Kampakoglou Part 1 Author and Text 1 A Poet’s Lives  Tom Phillips 2 Theocritus’ Textual History and Tradition  Claudio Meliadò 3 Theocritus’ Dialects  Olga Tribulato 4 “Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel”: The Forms of Theocritean Poetry  Jan Kwapisz Part 2 Genres and Models 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry  Giulio Massimilla 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15  Sarah Miles 7 Theocritus’ Hymns and “Epyllia”: Poems 13, 22, 24, 26  Alexander Sens 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of “Theocritus”  Taylor S. Coughlan 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer  Richard Hunter 10 Pan’s Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus  Alexandros Kampakoglou 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns)  Christophe Cusset Part 3 Poetics and Aesthetics 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus  Lara Pagani 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus’ Idylls: A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης  Evina Sistakou 14 Theocritus’ Contest Poems  Karl-Heinz Stanzel 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus  Jacqueline Klooster 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts  Évelyne Prioux Part 4 Narrative and Themes 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus  Andrew D. Morrison 18 Theocritean Spaces  William G. Thalmann 19 Theocritus and the Rural World  Viola Palmieri 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus  Annemarie Ambühl 21 Eros and the Pastoral  David Konstan Part 5 Contexts and Topics 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries  Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus  Dee L. Clayman 24 Theocritus’ Intercultural Poetics  Frederick T. Griffiths 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus  Ivana Petrovic 26 Women in Theocritus  Poulheria Kyriakou Part 6 Imitation and Reception 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus  Poulheria Kyriakou 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil’s Eclogues  Brian W. Breed 29 The King’s Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry  Joseph D. Reed 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition  Evangelos Karakasis 31 Theocritus and Longus  Ewen Bowie 32 “Simple Theocritus” from the 16th to 18th Centuries  Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry  Juan C. Pellicer Index

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Poulheria Kyriakou is Professor of Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Homeric Hapax Legomena in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (1995), A Commentary on Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris (2006), The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles (2011), and Theocritus and His Native Muse. A Syracusan Among Many (2018). She has also co-edited Wisdom and Folly in Euripides (2016). Evina Sistakou is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of The Geography of Callimachus and Hellenistic Avant-Garde Poetry (2005, in Modern Greek), Reconstructing the Epic. Cross-Readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (2008), The Aesthetics of Darkness. A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander (2012) and Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic (2016). Antonios Rengakos is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Member of the Academy of Athens. His major works are Form und Wandel des Machtdenkens der Athener bei Thukydides (1984), Der Homertext und die hellenistischen Dichter (1993), Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklärung (1994). He is the co-editor of A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (2001) Brill’s Companion to Thucydides (2006), Brill's Companion to Hesiod (2009), Homer Handbuch (2011), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Scholarship (2015). 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.

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