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 Koجˆhnken -- Narrative hexameter poetry / Annemarie Ambuجˆhl -- 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
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Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism