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This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. It relies on new editions of the primary sources to reconstruct...
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This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. It relies on new editions of the primary sources to reconstruct a poetics focused on form and content.
This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. It relies on new editions of the primary sources to reconstruct...
mehr
This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. It relies on new editions of the primary sources to reconstruct a poetics focused on form and content. Cover -- The Good Poem According to Philodemus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Philodemus and His Prolēpsis of the Good Poem -- 1 Introduction to Philodemus' Works -- 2 The Structure and Content of the On Poems -- 3 Background and Method of This Study -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Kanonikē and the Canon -- 6 The Prolēpsis of Poetry and the Possibility of an Epicurean Theory of Poetry -- 7 The Hypographē of "Poem" -- 8 The Problem of Meter -- 1 Epicurean Poetics before Philodemus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Epicurus -- 3 Metrodorus -- 4 Hermarchus, Polyaenus, and the Other Third- and Second-Century Epicureans -- 5 Colotes -- 6 Demetrius Laco -- 7 Zeno of Sidon -- 8 Siro -- 9 Conclusion -- 2 Philodemus' Terminology and Opponents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Partial Hellenistic Literary-Critical Lexicon -- 3 Crates and the Critics in His Treatise -- 3a Megaclides -- 3b Andromenides -- 3c Heracleodorus -- 3d Heracleodorus and Philodemus on Cookery and Poetry -- 3e Pausimachus -- 3f Crates of Mallos -- 3g The Kritikoi, the "Philosophers," and Crates -- 4 "Critic A" of Book III -- 5 Aristotle -- 6 Heraclides of Pontus -- 7 The Critics in Philomelus -- 7a The Anonymous Critics in Philomelus -- 7b Praxiphanes of Miletus -- 7c Demetrius of Byzantium -- 8 Neoptolemus of Parium -- 9 The Stoics -- 9a Diogenes of Babylon -- 9b The Anonymous Stoic (Formerly Known as Aristo) -- 10 The Anonymous Doxai in Zeno -- 11 Conclusion -- 3. Poetry as Technē and the Use of Poetry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hypographē of Technē and the "Technicity of Rhetoric" -- 3 The Technicity of Poetry -- 4 The Utility of the Technē of Poetry -- 5 The Utility of Poems -- 6 Conclusion -- 4. Form and Content -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ὑποτεταγμένη διάνοια in Philodemus -- 3 The Interrelation between Form and Content.