Poetic garlands [[electronic resource] ] : Hellenistic epigrams in context / / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller

• Autore: Gutzwiller Kathryn J
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 1998
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p. )
• Disciplina: 888/.0108
• Soggetto topico: Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism; Epigrams, Greek - History and criticism; Books and reading - Mediterranean Region; Literary form - History - To 1500; Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism - To 1500 - Mediterranean Region; Books and reading - History; Literary form; Languages & Literatures; Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- ; 2. Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Evidence from Manuscripts and Papyri. "In the Epigrams of ..." On Papyri. In Manuscript -- ; 3. The Third Century: From Stone to Book. Anyte. Nossis. Leonidas of Tarentum -- ; 4. The Third Century: Erotic and Sympotic Epigram. Asclepiades. Posidippus. Hedylus -- ; 5. The Book and the Scholar: Callimachus' Epigrammata. The Epigrammata. Dedicatory Epigrams. Sepulchral Epigrams. Erotic Epigrams -- ; 6. The Art of Variation: From Book to Anthology. Antipater of Sidon. Meleager. ; I. Structure of Cephalan Books -- ; II. Meleager's Amatory Book -- ; III. Structure of Meleager's Amatory Book -- ; IV. Meleager's Dedicatory Book -- ; V. Meleager's Sepulchral Book -- ; VI. Meleager's Epideictic Book.
• Sommario/riassunto: Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also collected in books intended for private reading. Brief and concise, concerned with the personal and the particular, the epigram emerged in the Hellenistic period as a sophisticated literary form that evinces the period's aesthetic preference for the miniature, the intricate, and the fragmented. Kathryn Gutzwiller offers the first full-length literary study of these important poems by studying the epigrams within the context of the poetry books in which they were originally collected. Drawing upon ancient sources as well as recent papyrological discoveries, Gutzwiller reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. This approach results in illuminating and original readings of many major poets, and demonstrates that individual epigrammatists were differentiated by gender, ethnicity, class status, and philosophical views. In an important final chapter, Gutzwiller reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's Garland, an ancient anthology of Hellenistic epigrams.
• Titolo autorizzato: Poetic garlands
• ISBN: 0-520-91897-5; 0-585-16033-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247981903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Hellenistic culture and society ; ; 28.; ACLS Fellows' publications.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.