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Author(s): Evina Sistakou
ISBN(s): 9783110479126, 3110479125
Edition: Digital original
File Details: PDF, 1.83 MB
Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 3110482320

ISBN 13: 9783110482324  

Author: Evina Sistakou

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 Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius’ epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius’ Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics

Table of contents:

  1. From Tragedy to the Tragic

  2. The Metaclassical Tragic

  3. Alexandrian Tragedy

  4. Callimachus Displaces the Tragic

  5. Redefining the Tragic in the Idylls of Theocritus

  6. Tragedy into Epic in Apollonius Argonautica

  7. In the Metatragic Cosmos of the Alexandra

  8. The Romantic Tragic

  9. Tragic Failures and Hellenistic Challenges

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