Beyond Alexandria argues for the existence of a distinctive Seleucid literature, with its own preferred genres and thematic concerns. It proposes new readings of these authors and argues that they can be understood only in the wider political context, especially in relation to the Ptolemies as the Seleucids' main rivals.
Beyond Alexandria argues for the existence of a distinctive Seleucid literature, with its own preferred genres and thematic concerns. It proposes new readings of these authors and argues that they can be understood only in the wider political context, especially in relation to the Ptolemies as the Seleucids' main rivals.
Marijn S. Visscher is an independent scholar of Greek literature.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Overview map Introduction Introduction Seleucid literature Chapter 1: Mapping the Realm Introduction Mapping the Realm: Mental Maps and the Spectre of World Empire On the Hellenistic Stage: Knowledge and Appropriation in Geography Chapter 2: Babylon, City of Kings Introduction The Kings and the City The Voice of the Local Priests: Manetho and the Ptolemies Chapter 3: Seleucid Crisis and the Ptolemaic Response Introduction Cultural Polemic: the Lock of Berenice and Barbarian Asia Meta-poetics and Inter-state Rivalry Chapter 4: Poets and Politics at the Court of Antiochus III Introduction Simonides: the Galatian Threat and the Struggle for Asia Minor Euphorion of Chalcis and the Literary Court Looking West: Hegesianax and the War with Rome Conclusion Bibliography
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Overview map Introduction Introduction Seleucid literature Chapter 1: Mapping the Realm Introduction Mapping the Realm: Mental Maps and the Spectre of World Empire On the Hellenistic Stage: Knowledge and Appropriation in Geography Chapter 2: Babylon, City of Kings Introduction The Kings and the City The Voice of the Local Priests: Manetho and the Ptolemies Chapter 3: Seleucid Crisis and the Ptolemaic Response Introduction Cultural Polemic: the Lock of Berenice and Barbarian Asia Meta-poetics and Inter-state Rivalry Chapter 4: Poets and Politics at the Court of Antiochus III Introduction Simonides: the Galatian Threat and the Struggle for Asia Minor Euphorion of Chalcis and the Literary Court Looking West: Hegesianax and the War with Rome Conclusion Bibliography
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