The Poets of Alexandria
$44.53
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2018
Summary
Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres), but at the same time forward-looking and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848858800 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1848858809 |
| Author: | Susan A. Stephens |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | I.B. Tauris |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 136mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Understanding Classics |
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Intended primarily as an introduction for undergraduates, but can be read with profit by more advanced students, and indeed by generalists interested in the classical world … An ideal introduction for anyone wanting to find out and think about Hellenistic poetry. The chapter on Posidippus is alone worth the book’s modest price. * Classics for All *
About The Author
Susan A. Stephens
Susan A Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Her books include Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (2003), Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets (with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2012) and Callimachus: The Hymns (2015).
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