On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 3)

This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (‘the ancient novel’), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purposes of literature, the intellectual context for ancient poetry, and the interaction of poetry and criticism. What emerges is not a literature shackled to the past and cowed by an ‘anxiety of influence’, but an energetic and constantly experimental engagement with both past and present. On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception, Part 1: Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 On Coming After......Page 19 Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception......Page 38 1. Apollo and the Argonauts: Two notes on Ap. Rhod. 2, 669–719......Page 40 Addendum......Page 52 2. Medea’s flight: the fourth Book of the Argonautica......Page 53 Addenda......Page 69 3. ‘Short on heroics’: Jason in the Argonautica......Page 70 Addenda......Page 96 4. Winged Callimachus......Page 97 Addenda......Page 99 5. Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil......Page 100 Addenda......Page 105 6. Greek and Non-Greek in the Argonautica of Apollonius......Page 106 Appendix: The Return Journey and the Route of Aeneas......Page 119 Addenda......Page 125 7. Callimachus and Heraclitus......Page 126 Addenda......Page 137 8. Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena......Page 138 Addenda......Page 163 1. Introduction......Page 164 2. Cosmic Poetry......Page 171 3. Authority and Truth......Page 177 4. The Stars Look Down......Page 186 5. Poetry and Philosophy......Page 193 Addenda......Page 199 10. The Presentation of Herodas’ Mimiamboi......Page 200 Addenda......Page 216 11. Callimachean Echoes in Catullus 65......Page 217 Addenda......Page 222 12. Plautus and Herodas......Page 223 Addenda......Page 239 13. Bion and Theocritus: a note on Lament for Adonis v. 55......Page 240 Addenda......Page 243 1. Realism and the language of Theoc. 15......Page 244 2. Adonis and Ptolemy......Page 254 Bibliography......Page 265 Addenda......Page 267 15. The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica......Page 268 Addenda......Page 287 16. Callimachus swings (frr. 178 and 43 Pf.)......Page 289 Addenda......Page 300 17. Before and after epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25......Page 301 Bibliography......Page 319 Addendum......Page 321 18. (B)ionic man: Callimachus’ iambic programme......Page 322 Bibliography......Page 335 Addenda......Page 336 19. The Poet Unleaved. Simonides and Callimachus......Page 337 Bibliography......Page 352 Addenda......Page 353 20. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica......Page 354 Bibliography......Page 386 Addenda......Page 388 21. Virgil and Theocritus: A Note on the Reception of the Encomium to Ptolemy Philadelphus......Page 389 Bibliography......Page 393 Addenda......Page 394 1. Authenticity and its consequences......Page 395 2. [Theocritus] 23......Page 405 Bibliography......Page 413 Addenda......Page 414 1. Introduction......Page 416 2. The cultic imagination......Page 418 3. ‘How shall I hymn you?’......Page 428 4. Intruding upon Apollo......Page 431 5. ‘From Zeus are kings’......Page 435 Addenda......Page 444 Thinking about Style......Page 445 From Songs to Poems?......Page 456 A catalogued world......Page 460 Retrospect......Page 464 Bibliography......Page 465 Addenda......Page 467 25. Notes on the Lithika of Poseidippos......Page 468 References......Page 479 Addenda......Page 480 1. Looking for the Catalogue......Page 481 2. Narrative structures......Page 495 3. Catalogues and Catalogue......Page 504 Bibliography......Page 510 Addenda......Page 513 1. Comic Clarity......Page 514 2. Didactic clarity......Page 520 3. How to approach a patron......Page 528 Bibliography......Page 531 Addendum......Page 533 28. Sweet nothings – Callimachus fr. 1.9 –12 revisited......Page 534 Bibliography......Page 546 Addendum......Page 547 29. The Reputation of Callimachus......Page 548 Bibliography......Page 567 Addendum......Page 569 30. Hesiod, Callimachus, and the invention of morality......Page 570 Bibliography......Page 580 On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception, Part 2: Comedy and Performance; Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire; The Ancient Novel......Page 586 Contents......Page 588 Comedy and Performance......Page 592 I. The Ekklesiazousai and the Ploutos......Page 594 II. The Fragments......Page 605 Addenda......Page 611 1. Luxuria and Inopia......Page 612 2. Stasimus and the Talent Loan......Page 625 Addenda......Page 629 33. The Aulularia of Plautus and its Greek original......Page 631 Addenda......Page 645 34. Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus......Page 646 Addenda......Page 661 1. Cultured movements......Page 662 2. Miming drama......Page 669 3. Mimic elements in New Comedy......Page 674 Bibliography......Page 679 Addenda......Page 681 36. Showing and telling: notes from the boundary......Page 682 Bibliography......Page 695 Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire......Page 698 37. Generic consciousness in the Orphic Argonautica?......Page 700 Bibliography......Page 717 Addendum......Page 718 38. Aspects of technique and style in the Periegesis of Dionysius......Page 719 Bibliography......Page 735 Addenda......Page 736 39. The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of Hellenistic poetry......Page 737 Bibliography......Page 752 The Ancient Novel......Page 754 40. History and Historicity in the Romance of Chariton......Page 756 I. The Historiographical Frame......Page 757 II. The Narrator’s Voice......Page 767 III. Reading Callirhoe......Page 775 IV. Reading Chaireas......Page 784 V. Conclusion......Page 789 Bibliography......Page 791 Addenda......Page 793 41. Longus and Plato......Page 794 Addenda......Page 808 42. Growing up in the ancient novels: a response......Page 809 Addenda......Page 821 43. The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation?......Page 823 Bibliography......Page 846 44. ‘Philip the Philosopher’ on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus......Page 848 Bibliography......Page 862 Addendum......Page 863 45. Plato’s Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction......Page 864 Bibliography......Page 883 Addendum......Page 885 46. Isis and the Language of Aesop......Page 886 Bibliography......Page 901 47. The curious incident ...: polypragmosyne and the ancient novel......Page 903 Bibliography......Page 914 General Index......Page 916 Passages Index......Page 921 This work gathers together the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter ́s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria and the narrative literature of later antiquity ( ́the ancient novel ́), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purpose of literature, and the intellectual context for ancient poetry.