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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 January 2010
      14 March 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511627378
      9780521560405
      9780521035262
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627378
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.448kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.338kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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    The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these discoveries are fully exploited in a set of readings which will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.

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    "The book is well written and excellently researched." N.J. Nicholson, Vhoice

    "...Hunter's book is rich in insights and individual observations. This book is a serious and insight-laden piece of scholarship that will reward careful study by anyone interested in Hellenistic poetry...Hunter's book provides a useful case study for the interaction of literary qppropriation and generic experimentation in one of that period's best preserved poets." International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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