Table of Contents

List of plates; Abbreviations; Editorial note; Part I. Hellenistic Poetry: 1. Introduction; 2. Philetas and others; 3. Callimachus; 4. Theocritus; 5. Apollonius Rhodius; 6. Minor figures; Part II. The Literature of the Empire: 7. The early Empire; 8. Poetry; 9. Philostratus and the second sophistic; 10. Science and superstition; 11. Between philosophy and rhetoric; 12. The Greek novel; 13. The fable; 14. Historical writing of the high empire; Part III. Book and Readers in the Greek world: 15. From the beginnings to Alexandria; 16. The Hellenistic and imperial periods; Appendixes; Index.

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Studies the revolutionary movement represented by some Hellenistic poets and those authors surviving from the imperial period.

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