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Susan A. Stephens

The Poets of Alexandria

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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 experimental, willing to make use of previous forms of writing in exciting new ways. The author examines Alexandria's poets in turn. She discusses the st… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84885-880-0
  • EAN: 9781848858800
  • Produktnummer: 18121796
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Masse: H14.0 cm x B21.5 cm x D1.5 cm 268 g
  • Abbildungen: 2 maps
  • Gewicht: 268
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


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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