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Book SynopsisThrough the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity’s foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus’ work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet’s reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus’ profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus Alexandros Kampakoglou Part 1 Author and Text 1 A Poet’s Lives Tom Phillips 2 Theocritus’ Textual History and Tradition Claudio Meliadò 3 Theocritus’ Dialects Olga Tribulato 4 “Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel”: The Forms of Theocritean Poetry Jan Kwapisz Part 2 Genres and Models 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry Giulio Massimilla 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15 Sarah Miles 7 Theocritus’ Hymns and “Epyllia”: Poems 13, 22, 24, 26 Alexander Sens 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of “Theocritus” Taylor S. Coughlan 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer Richard Hunter 10 Pan’s Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus Alexandros Kampakoglou 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns) Christophe Cusset Part 3 Poetics and Aesthetics 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus Lara Pagani 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus’ Idylls: A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης Evina Sistakou 14 Theocritus’ Contest Poems Karl-Heinz Stanzel 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus Jacqueline Klooster 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts Évelyne Prioux Part 4 Narrative and Themes 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus Andrew D. Morrison 18 Theocritean Spaces William G. Thalmann 19 Theocritus and the Rural World Viola Palmieri 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus Annemarie Ambühl 21 Eros and the Pastoral David Konstan Part 5 Contexts and Topics 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus Dee L. Clayman 24 Theocritus’ Intercultural Poetics Frederick T. Griffiths 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus Ivana Petrovic 26 Women in Theocritus Poulheria Kyriakou Part 6 Imitation and Reception 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus Poulheria Kyriakou 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil’s Eclogues Brian W. Breed 29 The King’s Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry Joseph D. Reed 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition Evangelos Karakasis 31 Theocritus and Longus Ewen Bowie 32 “Simple Theocritus” from the 16th to 18th Centuries Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry Juan C. Pellicer Index
