On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and Its Reception

928 Pages·2008·3.287 MB·English

by  Richard L. Hunter

Richard Hunter
On Coming After
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On Coming After
Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature
and its Reception
by
Richard Hunter
Part 1
Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception
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Contents
Part 1
Preface .............................................. IX
Introduction ......................................... 1
On Coming After ..................................... 8
Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception
1. ApolloandtheArgonauts:TwonotesonAp.Rhod.2,669–719 29
2. Medea’s flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica ........ 42
3. ‘Short on heroics’: Jason in the Argonautica .............. 59
4. Winged Callimachus ............................... 86
5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil .............. 89
6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius .... 95
7. Callimachus and Heraclitus .......................... 115
8. WritingtheGod:FormandMeaninginCallimachus,Hymnto
Athena ........................................... 127
9. Written in theStars: Poetryand Philosophy in the Phainomena
of Aratus ......................................... 153
10. The Presentation of Herodas’ Mimiamboi ................ 189
11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 65 ................... 206
12. Plautus and Herodas ................................ 212
13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonis v. 55 .... 229
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14. Mime and mimesis: Theocritus, Idyll 15 ................ 233
15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica .......... 257
16. Callimachus swings (frr.178 and 43 Pf.) ................ 278
17. Before and after epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25 ............ 290
18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus’ iambic programme ........... 311
19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus .......... 326
20. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica .............. 343
21. Virgil and Theocritus: A Note on the Reception of the
Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus ...................... 378
22. The Sense of an Author: Theocritus and [Theocritus] ..... 384
23. Imaginary Gods? Poetic theology in the Hymns of
Callimachus ...................................... 405
24. Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change ............ 434
25. Notes on the Lithika of Poseidippos ................... 457
26. The Hesiodic Catalogue and Hellenistic Poetry ........... 470
27. The prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes (‘Pseudo-Scymnus’) 503
28. Sweet nothings – Callimachus fr.1.9–12 revisited ........ 523
29. The Reputation of Callimachus ....................... 537
30. Hesiod, Callimachus, and the invention of morality ....... 559
Contents VII
Part 2
Comedy and Performance
31. The Comic Chorus in the fourth century ............... 575
32. Philemon, Plautus and the Trinummus .................. 593
33. The Aulularia of Plautus and its Greek original ........... 612
34. Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus ........... 627
35. ‘Acting down’: the ideology of Hellenistic performance .... 643
36. Showing and telling: notes from the boundary ........... 663
Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire
37. Generic consciousness in the Orphic Argonautica? .......... 681
38. Aspects of technique and style in the Periegesis of Dionysius . 700
39. The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of Hellenistic
poetry ........................................... 718
The Ancient Novel
40. History and Historicity in the Romance of Chariton ...... 737
41. Longus and Plato .................................. 775
42. Growing up in the ancient novels: a response ............ 790
43. The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation?...... 804
44. ‘Philip the Philosopher’ on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus ... 829
45. Plato’s Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction ..... 845
46. Isis and the Language of Aesop ....................... 867
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47. The curious incident …: polypragmosyne and the ancient novel 884
General Index ........................................ 897
Passages Index ........................................ 902
Preface
A collection such as this probably requires an apology more than a
Preface, but I hope that the bringing together of these pieces from
the last thirty years will at least be found useful by students of ancient
literature. The remarkable recent growth of collected volumes, ‘com-
panions’, and conference papers perhaps gives volumes such as this
more justification than some may have had in the past. I have resisted
the temptation to revise (contenting myself with a few addenda and
the up-dating of some references), even where the follies of past years
seemedtodemandcorrection,inpartbecause,oncestartedontheproc-
ess of revision, ‘where do you stop?’ becomes an ever more insistent
question. In particular, it should be noted that the bibliographical and
editorial conventions of the original publications (including the spelling
of ancient names) have been very largely preserved.
This book would never have appeared without the remarkable and
selfless labours of Antonios Rengakos, one of the Editors of Trends in
Classics, and Evangelos Karakasis, both of who advised, scanned, edited
and corrected with apparently indefatigable, and extraordinarily cheer-
ful, carefulness; I am very much in the debt of these two friends,
whose work on this project I have found very moving. I am also very
grateful to Sabine Vogt of Walter de Gruyter Verlag for her support
and encouragement at every stage, and to the editors and publishers
of the original articles for the permission to reprint them here.