Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic

ISBN-13: 9783110479126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 261 str.

Evina Sistakou

Opis

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. "

Recenzje

"Dr Sistakou's conception of the subject of this book and her approach to Alexandrian responses to tragedy and 'the tragic'are vigorous and innovative in many aspects. The author displays a solid theoretical background on this issue and a wide knowledge of Hellenistic texts. This study certainly fills a gap and is a most welcome addition to the bibliography on Hellenistic literature."
Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou in: Gnomon 90/6 (2018), 556-558

O autorze

Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.