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

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Superficial scratch on spine and edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Oberfl�licher Kratzer auf R�cken und Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Part 2: Comedy and Performance, Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire, The Ancient Novel -- Part 1: Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception. -- The journal "Trends in Classics" and the accompanying "Supplementary Volumes" publish innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity. On Coming After gathers together the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of post-classical Greek literature and its reception in the Graeco-Roman world. At the heart of these essays lie the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria and the narrative literature of later antiquity ("the ancient novel"), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within their scope. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purpose of literature, and the intellectual context for ancient poetry. ISBN 9783110204414