Poetry as window and mirror : Hellenistic poets on predecessors, contemporaries and themselves

Authors	J.J.H. Klooster
Supervisors	I.J.F. de Jong
Cosupervisors	A.M. van Erp Taalman Kip
Award date	23-04-2009
ISBN	9789090241166
Number of pages	287
Organisations	Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language	English
Downloads	Thesis Front cover Title pages Acknowledgements Contents Texts, translations and conventions Introduction Chapter 1: Historical poets represented : poetic predecessors in epigram Chapter 2: Historical poets and contemporary poetry : coming to terms with poetic models Chapter 3: Invention of tradition in Hellenistic poetry : appropriation of mythical poets Chapter 4: The muses' birdcage : poetic criticism of contemporaries Chapter 5: Birds of a feather : poetic praise for contemporaries Chapter 6: Poetic identities : sphragis-epigrams versus role-playing Chapter 7: Allusive names, elusive poets : aliases and alter egos in sphragis-poetry Chapter 8: Questioning the muse : authority and inspiration in the age of the museum Summary and conclusion Appendix: List of Hellenistic epigrams on poets Bibliography Nederlandse samenvatting
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