Michael McOsker

The Good Poem According to Philodemus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 244mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780190912819
• ISBN-10: 0190912812
• Artikelnr.: 62664814

Autorenporträt

Michael McOsker is an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Universität zu Köln and, with David Armstrong, editor and translator of Philodemus' On Anger.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Philodemus and his prolepsis of the good poem
1. Epicurean poetics before Philodemus
2. Philodemus' terminology and opponents
3. Poetry as techne and the use of poetry
4. Form and content
5. The judgment of poems and their psychological effect
6. Conclusions
7. Appendix: An Epicurean critical miscellany