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The epigram
No full textOne of the chapters written by M. Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic poetry.
It has been the first systematic analysis of the interactions between monuments and archaic and classical Greek epigrams on stone, and the fictionalization of this relation in the literary epigram of the Hellenistic age
Performance and genre (cap. 1)
No full textOne of the chapter written by M. Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, "Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry"
Analysis of the systems of the literary genres in the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic age, and attempt at historicizing the dynamics of allusion and imitation to the archaic genres in the main Hellenistic poet
Theocritus and the Bucolic Genre
No full textOne of the chapters written by M. Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, "Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic poetry"
Analysis of the the construction of the genre of "literary mime, and of its sub-genre bucolic poetry. Main emphasis on the idea of "Invention of a tradition" on behalf of Theocritus, and the dynamics between pastoral ideal of hesychia and pains of love both in Theocritus and in the post-Theocritean bucolic poet
The aesthetics of sequentiality and its discontents
No full textLa poetica che porto' alla stesura dei poemi del ciclo epico era una poetica fondata sul principio della completezza e della sequenzialita' nella presentazione del mito. L'estica platonico-aristotelica, e poi in totale sintonia l'estetica ellenistica impongono la selezione come un valore estetico. Donde il defilarsi probabilmente progressivo dei poemi del Ciclo Epico dal novero delle letture canoniche, la loro utilizzazione principalmente attraverso riassunto, e la loro scomparsa come testi integral
Kyklos, Epic Cycle, and Cyclic poetry
No full textIl cap. percorre la storia dei poemi del Ciclo epico dalla loro origine orale alla fissazione scritta; la loro fortuna e scomparsa, la creazione dei sommari; la creazione dei nmi e delle biografie degli autori; le reazioni negative dei cultori dell'estetica aristotelico/ellenistic
Performing and Informing: On the Prologues of the [Euripidean] Rhesus
No full textThis paper investigates the two prologues that prefaced the Rhesus
according to an ancient Hypothesis to the play (both are missing in our manuscripts).
In particular, it highlights the literary ambitions of these prologues as
texts probably composed to serve fourth- or early third-century reperformances
of the play, and explores the disparaging opinion of the author of the Hypothesis,
who considered one of the prologues bad enough to have been ‘composed by
actors
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