LEADER 03437nam 2200601 450 001 9910806875503321 005 20200917021826.0 010 $a3-11-048063-8 010 $a3-11-048232-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110482324 035 $a(CKB)3850000000001159 035 $a(EBL)4595531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4595531 035 $a(DE-B1597)466961 035 $a(OCoLC)954046804 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110482324 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4595531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11237028 035 $a(PPN)202115178 035 $a(EXLCZ)993850000000001159 100 $a20160812h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTragic failures $eAlexandrian responses to tragedy and the tragic /$fEvina Sistakou 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cDe Gruyter,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes,$x1868-4785 ;$vVolume 38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-047912-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: From Tragedy to the Tragic -- $t1. Tragedy, from Athens to Alexandria -- $t2. The Metaclassical Tragic -- $t3. Alexandrian Tragedy -- $t4. Callimachus Displaces the Tragic -- $t5. Redefining the Tragic in the Idylls of Theocritus -- $t6. Tragedy into Epic in Apollonius? Argonautica -- $t7. In the Metatragic Cosmos of the Alexandra -- $t8. The Romantic Tragic -- $tConclusion: Tragic Failures and Hellenistic Challenges -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius? epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius? Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics. 410 0$aTrends in classics.$pSupplementary volumes ;$vVolume 37. 606 $aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$xHistory and criticism 610 $aAlexandrian aesthetics. 610 $aHellenistic poetry. 610 $atragedy. 610 $atragic. 615 0$aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a881.0109 686 $aFE 4451$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aSistakou$b Evina$0478548 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806875503321 996 $aTragic failures$92689638 997 $aUNINA