The Teaching Poet: Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry

By Leonardo Cazzadori

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 316162680X
• ISBN13: 9783161626807
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.