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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Callimachus"”.
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
… and see it instead pushing back against the Callimachus school of small, new poetry. Ultimately, the thesis aims to show how the Posthomerica could be pivotal for unpinning current critical assumptions about imperial Greek poetry; revealing a palpable shift in tone in the construct of the …
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Into the woods: narrative studies in the 'Thebaid' of Statius with special reference to books IV-VI
… two traces the influence of the opening of Callimachus' Aetia III over the episode: the Victoria Berenices' aetiology of Herakles and Molorchus reconfigures our notions of the heroic, attributing new value to the small and insignificant. Chapter three explores the importance of Bacchus' …
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The Literary Past and the Hellenistic Symposium
… theatrical tradition. Chapter Four focuses on Callimachus’ Iambi and the Letter of Aristeas, texts which in different ways have the symposium as a structuring principle and are concerned with the literary past. The aim is to highlight how the argument obtains even when the symposium is an …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
… like Poliziano, tried their hand at translating Callimachus, whilst also arguing for Poliziano’s influence on important figures such as Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Dorat.
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
A critical analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity …