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This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official genre cultivated by the Pleiad, whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly, the notion of the tragic was adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy, the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. __Tragic Failures__ traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and Theocritus, in Apollonius’ epic __Argonautica__, in the iambic __Alexandra__, in late Hellenistic poetry and in Parthenius’ __Erotika Pathemata__. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics.

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Author

Sistakou, Evina

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110479126

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction