Tragic Failures

Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic

Evina Sistakou (Autor)

Media-Kombination

XII, 249 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover & eBook

2016
De Gruyter
978-3-11-048233-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This study focuses on the reception of tragedy and the tragic in Hellenistic poetry. It illustrates how classical tragedy and the tragic idea were incorporated in the poems of Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius’ Argonautica, the iambic Alexandra and late Hellenistic poetry. It demonstrates that ‘the tragic’ was not doomed to failure in the postclassical world but lived on through the works of the great Alexandrian poets and their followers.

Autor

Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 38
• Zusatzinfo: Includes a print version and an ebook
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 230 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Alexandrian aesthetics • Alexandrinische Ästhetik • Hellenistic Poetry • Hellenistische Dichtung • Tragedy • tragic • Tragödie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-048233-9 / 3110482339
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-048233-1 / 9783110482331
• Zustand: Neuware