Brill's Companion to Theocritus /

Brill's Companion to Theocritus /

Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity's foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theo...

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Other Authors: Sistakou, Evina (Editor), Rengakos, Antonios (Editor), Kyriakou, Poulheria (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies Online V, ISBN: 9789004420878.

Subjects:

Theocritus > Criticism and interpretation.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic > History and criticism.
Essays.
Literary criticism.

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Call Number: PA4444 PA4444 .B75 2021

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos
  • Copyright Page /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos
  • Preface /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos
  • Notes on Contributors /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos
  • Introduction Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus /
  • Alexandros Kampakoglou
  • Chapter 1 A Poet's Lives /
  • Tom Phillips
  • Chapter 2 Theocritus' Textual History and Tradition /
  • Claudio Meliadò
  • Chapter 3 Theocritus' Dialects /
  • Olga Tribulato
  • Chapter 4 "Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel": The Forms of Theocritean Poetry /
  • Jan Kwapisz
  • Chapter 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry /
  • Giulio Massimilla
  • Chapter 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the "Everyday" in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15 /
  • Sarah Miles
  • Chapter 7 Theocritus' Hymns and "Epyllia": Poems 13, 22, 24, 26 /
  • Alexander Sens
  • Chapter 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of "Theocritus" /
  • Taylor S. Coughlan
  • Chapter 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer /
  • Richard Hunter
  • Chapter 10 Pan's Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus /
  • Alexandros Kampakoglou
  • Chapter 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus' Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns) /
  • Christophe Cusset
  • Chapter 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus /
  • Lara Pagani
  • Chapter 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus' Idylls : A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης /
  • Evina Sistakou
  • Chapter 14 Theocritus' Contest Poems /
  • Karl-Heinz Stanzel
  • Chapter 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus /
  • Jacqueline Klooster
  • Chapter 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts /
  • Évelyne Prioux
  • Chapter 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus /
  • A.D. Morrison
  • Chapter 18 Theocritean Spaces /
  • William G. Thalmann
  • Chapter 19 Theocritus and the Rural World /
  • Viola Palmieri
  • Chapter 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus /
  • Annemarie Ambühl
  • Chapter 21 Eros and the Pastoral /
  • David Konstan
  • Chapter 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries /
  • Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
  • Chapter 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus /
  • Dee L. Clayman
  • Chapter 24 Theocritus' Intercultural Poetics /
  • Frederick T. Griffiths
  • Chapter 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus /
  • Ivana Petrovic
  • Chapter 26 Women in Theocritus /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou
  • Chapter 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou
  • Chapter 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil's Eclogues /
  • Brian W. Breed
  • Chapter 29 The King's Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry /
  • Joseph D. Reed
  • Chapter 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition /
  • Evangelos Karakasis
  • Chapter 31 Theocritus and Longus /
  • Ewen Bowie
  • Chapter 32 "Simple Theocritus" from the 16th to 18th Centuries /
  • Thomas K. Hubbard
  • Chapter 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry /
  • Juan C. Pellicer
  • Indexes /
  • Poulheria Kyriakou , Evina Sistakou , and Antonios Rengakos.