Tragic failures : Alexandrian responses to tragedy and the tragic /
This 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...
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Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
Jazyk: | Angličtina Řečtina, starověká (do 1453) |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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Edice: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes,
volume 38 |
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On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
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Tragic failures |
Obsah:
- Tragedy, from Athens to Alexandria
- The metaclassical tragic
- Alexandrian tragedy
- Callimachus displaces the tragic
- Redefining the tragic in the Idylls of Theocritus
- Tragedy into epic in Apollonius' Argonautica
- In the metatragic cosmos of the Alexandra
- The romantic tragic
- Conclusions: tragic failures and Hellenistic challenges