A guide to Hellenistic literature

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History and culture. The successors ; Macedonia and Greece ; Seleucid Asia ; Attalid Pergamum ; Ptolemaic Egypt

Aesthetics and style. Aesthetic principles ; Meter, dialect, and diction ; Literature as artefact

Authors and genres. Menander ; Callimachus ; Apollonius of Rhodes ; Theocritus and the other bucolic poets ; Didactic poetry ; Epigrams ; Dramatic poetry ; Parodic and philosophical literature ; Polybius ; Technical prose writing

Topics in Hellenistic literature. Learning and innovation ; Book culture and performance ; Social and political background ; The critical impulse in literature and art ; Reception in Rome

Chronological tables