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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Hlavní autor: Sistakou, Evina (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Řečtina, starověká (do 1453)
Vydáno: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2016]
Edice:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, volume 38
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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