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Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels
Ewen Bowie
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10 October 2023

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27 July 2023
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In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.

10 - The Reception of Apollonius Rhodius in Imperial Greek Literature (2000)
Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

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10 October 2023

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27 July 2023, pp 174-183
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This chapter charts the knowledge of Apollonius Rhodius shown in imperial Greek literature, where there are fewer references in prose writers than might be expected for so prominent a poet, but much exploitation of his language by hexameter poets, above all by Dionysius Periegetes.

Introduction to Volume II: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels
Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

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10 October 2023

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27 July 2023, pp 1-25
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The Introduction sketches the content of the book’s forty-six chapters in varying degrees of detail and relates them to the author’s developing interests and, in the case of imperial Greek poetry and the Greek novels, to the increasing scholarly attention given to these subjects over the last thirty-five years.