The Laurel and the Olive

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  • The Laurel and the Olive Book Detail

  • Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
  • Release Date : 2024-06-04
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 618
  • ISBN 13 : 3110787679
  • File Size : 77,77 MB

The Laurel and the Olive by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes PDF Summary

Book Description: A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.

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