Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Performance and genre
- 2 The aetiology of Callimachus' Aitia
- 3 The Argonautica of Apollonius and epic tradition
- 4 Theocritus and the bucolic genre
- 5 Epic in a minor key
- 6 The style of Hellenistic epic
- 7 The epigram
- 8 The languages of praise
- 9 Hellenistic drama
- 10 Roman epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
General index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Performance and genre
- 2 The aetiology of Callimachus' Aitia
- 3 The Argonautica of Apollonius and epic tradition
- 4 Theocritus and the bucolic genre
- 5 Epic in a minor key
- 6 The style of Hellenistic epic
- 7 The epigram
- 8 The languages of praise
- 9 Hellenistic drama
- 10 Roman epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry , pp. 506 - 511Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005