On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and Its Reception

by Richard L. Hunter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311020441X
• ISBN13: 9783110204414
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 917 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary