By Richard Hunter
This ebook gathers jointly the various primary essays of Richard Hunter, whose paintings has been basic within the smooth re-assessment of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and in different places. on the middle of Hunter’s paintings lies the excessive poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (‘the old novel’), yet comedy, mime, didactic poetry and historical literary feedback all fall in the scope of those reviews. central recurrent topics are the makes use of and sport of the prior, the modes of poetic allusion, the ethical reasons of literature, the highbrow context for historic poetry, and the interplay of poetry and feedback. What emerges isn't really a literature shackled to the earlier and cowed through an ‘anxiety of influence’, yet an lively and consistently experimental engagement with either previous and present.
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