Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry
Edited by M.A. Harder Edited by R.F. Regtuit Edited by G.C. Wakker
The papers in this volume show how the past ‘is present’ in a variety of forms and contexts in the work of the Hellenistic poets and how these poets cannot escape dealing with it in depth, often in a creative and intriguing manner, which may help to give further meaning to the present as well. Some papers discuss the subject of past and present from a general point of view, others deal with issues of literary tradition and intertextuality or discuss the connections between past and present as they are used and established on an ideological level. The papers show that the past, though almost ‘omnipresent’, is never used in a purely antiquarian way. The Hellenistic poets clearly manage to link it to the present in a meaningful way and are able to use it to establish their own position in the literary tradition as well as in issues of ideological importance.
The papers in this volume show how the past ‘is present’ in a variety of forms and contexts in the work of the Hellenistic poets and how these poets cannot escape dealing with it in depth, often in a creative and intriguing manner, which may help to give further meaning to the present as well. Some papers discuss the subject of past and present from a general point of view, others deal with issues of literary tradition and intertextuality or discuss the connections between past and present as they are used and established on an ideological level. The papers show that the past, though almost ‘omnipresent’, is never used in a purely antiquarian way. The Hellenistic poets clearly manage to link it to the present in a meaningful way and are able to use it to establish their own position in the literary tradition as well as in issues of ideological importance.
- Edited by M.A. Harder
- Edited by R.F. Regtuit
- Edited by G.C. Wakker
Other Titles in this Series
The Aesthetics of Darkness
A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander
Volume 17
Traditions épiques et poésie épigrammatique
Actes du colloque des 7, 8 et 9 novembre 2012 Ã Aix-en-Provence
Volume 22
Kinder und junge Helden
Innovative Aspekte des Umgangs mit der literarischen Tradition bei Kallimachos
Volume 9
Similar Books
Nurturing the Elite
Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography
Volume 13
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Volume 8
After Life in Roman Paganism. L’Égypte des astrologues. Les Mages hellénisés
Introductions historiographiques
Volume 7
Althochdeutsche Stabreimdichtungen
Hildebrandslied, Muspilli und kleinere Denkmaler. Von Grund auf neu ediert, mit Erschliessungshilfen versehen, ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Frank Schafer
But the Wise Shall Understand
Reuse of Prophecies, Chronotope, and Merging of Eschatological Horizons in Daniel 10-12
Carl Hanser Verlag as an intermediary of Polish literature in West Germany between 1945 and 1990
Volume 2
Creation Concepts and Creation Care
Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII
Emotion and Calculation
Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present
Volume 14
