Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

by: Konig, J. Wiater, N.

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Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Part of Greek Culture in the Roman World

Editors:Jason König, University of St Andrews, ScotlandNicolas Wiater, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Jason König, Nicolas Wiater, Thomas A. Schmitz, Mario Baumann, Benjamin Gray, Emma Greensmith, Joy Connolly, Myrto Hatzimichali, Felix K. Maier, Lawrence Kim, Casper C. de Jonge, Simon Goldhill

Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with many verse texts and inscriptions. In the process, they offer new insights into the various ways in which late Hellenistic literature engaged with its social, cultural and political contexts, while interrogating and revising some of the standard narratives of the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literary culture, which are too often studied in isolation from each other. As a whole the book prompts us to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history.

Brings a wide variety of genres and texts of late Hellenistic Greek literature into dialogue with each other
Applies sophisticated literary-critical approaches which enhance our appreciation and understanding of the role of late Hellenistic Greek literature within ancient literary history more broadly
Prompts us to rethink the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literature, challenging the notion of a clear dividing line between the two periods

Table of Contents
Introduction Jason König and Nicolas Wiater
1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater
2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz
3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann
4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason König
5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray
6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith
7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly
8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali
9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier
10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim
11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge
12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

by: Konig, J. Wiater, N.

• ISBN-13: 9781009015950 / 978-1-00-901595-0
• ISBN-03: 1009015958 / 1-00-901595-8
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

Price: 37,00 EURO

1 copy in stock