The Teaching Poet

Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry

by Leonardo Cazzadori

Book cover: The Teaching Poet

Extent: 281 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2025)

ISBN: 9783161626807

6.06 x 9.09 inches

Price: $124.00

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In his study of didactic poetry in Hellenistic Greece, Leonardo Cazzadori explores the intellectual history of the concept of “didactic” poetry, analyses the cultural background of the poems (fourth to second centuries B.C.), and examines the poems’ rhetorical strategies in popularizing scientific discourse and describing the natural world.

Born 1989; 2020 PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature from Stanford University; 2022 DAAD Visiting Researcher at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin; Honorary Research Fellow (Cultore della Materia) at the University of Padova.

  • By (author) Leonardo Cazzadori