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Tragic failures : Alexandrian responses to tragedy and the tragic.

This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sistakou, Evina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2016]
Collection:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes.
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Table des matières:
  • Tragedy, from Athens to Alexandria
  • The metaclassical tragic
  • Alexandrian tragedy
  • Callimachus displaces the tragic
  • Redefining the tragic in the Idylls of Theocritus
  • Tragedy into epic in Apollonius' Argonautica
  • In the metatragic cosmos of the Alexandra
  • The romantic tragic
  • Conclusions: tragic failures and Hellenistic challenges.