Hellenistic Poetry

By: G. O. Hutchinson

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Paperback | 1 March 1997

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The work of the Hellenistic poets in the third century BC has not only an important place in Greek literature, but also a particular significance for Latin poetry. Despite much technical work on the texts and language of these authors - Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, and others - previous literary criticism on most of the major figures is limited in quantity and scope. In this new paperback edition, Dr Hutchinson explores the work of the individual writers in turn, while developing a general conception of the poetry as a whole, centred around the poets' handling of tone, level, and form. The book culminates in the presentation of a fresh approach to the influence of Hellenistic poets in Rome. All quotations in Greek or Latin have been translated by the author.

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Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Literary history and Hellenistic poetry: contemporary backgrounds	p. 2
Classical literature, and poetry 400-280 BC	p. 10
Callimachus	p. 26
C. and learning	p. 26
C. and seriousness	p. 32
Aetia	p. 40
Iambi	p. 48
Hecale	p. 56
Hymns	p. 63
Epigrams	p. 71
C.'s writing on his own poetry	p. 77
Apollonius	p. 85
A. and Callimachus	p. 86
Unity and structure: simpler cohesion, the idea of return	p. 96
Stranger cohesion, Book 3	p. 104
Jason	p. 106
Medea	p. 116
Book 4	p. 121
Theocritus	p. 143
Contrasts of tone, and relation to form: poems without songs	p. 160
Poems with songs	p. 170
Th. and Apollonius, and Callimachus	p. 190
Poem 7	p. 201
Other Poets	p. 214
Aratus	p. 214
Herodas	p. 236
Lycophron	p. 257
Asclepiades	p. 264
Roman Poetry	p. 277
Role of Callimachus' pronouncements	p. 277
Treatments of prologue to Aetia	p. 283
Catullus' 'long poems'	p. 296
Virgil	p. 325
Ovid, Metamorphoses	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 355
Indexes	p. 363
General Index	p. 363
Index Of Passages And Works Discussed	p. 371
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