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Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic

By Evina Sistakou

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
3110479125, 9783110479126
ISSN
1868-4785
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1849958 bytes)
Series
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 38
Pages
XII+250\263
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-21 20:32:04
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Description

This study focuses on the reception of tragedy and the tragic in Hellenistic poetry. It illustrates how classical tragedy and the tragic idea were incorporated in the poems of Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius Argonautica, the iambic Alexandra and late Hellenistic poetry. It demonstrates that the tragic was not doomed to failure in the postclassical world but lived on through the works of the great Alexandrian poets and their followers. "

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