The author uses the "Idylls" of Theocritus to show us the formative processes at work in the creation of a literary genre - the pastoral - and how the very structure of a genre both shapes and limits judgments about it. Gutzwiller argues that Theocritus' position as the first pastoralist has haunted critical assessments of him. Was he merely a ...
Drawing upon ancient sources as well as recent papyrological discoveries, this text reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. The final chapter reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's "Garland", an ancient anthology of Hellenistic ...
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