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A companion to Hellenistic literature

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Introduction / James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
From Alexander to Augustus / Andrew Erskine
Literature and the kings / Rolf Strootman
Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan Stephens
Education / Jessica Wissmann
The pre-figured muse : rethinking a few assumptions on Hellenistic poetics / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Callimachus's Aetia / Annette Harder
Hellenistic elegy : out from under the shadow of Callimachus / Jackie Murray
Epigram / Jon S. Bruss
Apollonius's Argonautica / Adolf Köhnken
Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambühl
Hymns and encomia / Anthony Bulloch
Sung poetry : the case of inscribed paeans / Marco Fantuzzi
Aratus / Katharina Volk
Nicander / Enrico Magnelli
The bucolic fiction of Theocritus / Mark Payne
Idyll 6 and the development of bucolic after Theocritus / J.D. Reed
Iambos and parody / Ruth Scodel
Herodas and the mime / Elena Esposito
Menander's comedy / Susan Lape
Hellenistic tragedy and Lycophron's Alexandra / Alexander Sens
Rhetoric and science / Martine Cuypers
Literary criticism / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Philosophy after Aristotle / Stephen White
From Polybius to Dionysius : the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography / Alain M. Gowing
Prose fiction / Tim Whitmarsh
Jewish literature / Erich S. Gruen
Egyptian literature / Jacco Dieleman and Ian Moyer
Literature in western Asia / Silke Knippschild
From the head of Zeus : the beginnings of Roman literature / James J. Clauss.

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