Marco Fantuzzi

Richard L. Hunter

la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto

Muse e modelli

Casper C. de Jonge

Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.

Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Western tradition. It is also a high point in classical literary art. This book pays close attention to parody of modes of style and thought as well as to the provocative construction of the whole. It will introduce readers to the work itself by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic.

Plato's Symposium

Richard Hunter

The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding of how Theocritus read archaic poetry, and these discoveries are fully exploited in a set of readings which will change the way we look at Hellenistic poetry.

Richard L. Hunter

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