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De Gruyter Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic: 38 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 38)

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Product Description This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius' epic Argonautica, in the iambic Alexandra, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius' Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics. Review "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 About the Author Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Brand: De Gruyter
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 3110479125
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Greece
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 July 2016
Listed Since: 17 March 2016

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