- Author
- Title
- Poetry as window and mirror : Hellenistic poets on predecessors, contemporaries and themselves
- Supervisors
- Co-supervisors
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A.M. van Erp Taalman Kip
- Award date
- 23 April 2009
- Number of pages
- 287
- ISBN
- 9789090241166
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
- Note
- Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.319512
- Downloads
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Thesis
Front cover
Title pages
Acknowledgements
Contents
Texts, translations and conventions
Introduction
Chapter 1: Historical poets represented : poetic predecessors in epigram
Chapter 2: Historical poets and contemporary poetry : coming to terms with poetic models
Chapter 3: Invention of tradition in Hellenistic poetry : appropriation of mythical poets
Chapter 4: The muses' birdcage : poetic criticism of contemporaries
Chapter 5: Birds of a feather : poetic praise for contemporaries
Chapter 6: Poetic identities : sphragis-epigrams versus role-playing
Chapter 7: Allusive names, elusive poets : aliases and alter egos in sphragis-poetry
Chapter 8: Questioning the muse : authority and inspiration in the age of the museum
Summary and conclusion
Appendix: List of Hellenistic epigrams on poets
Bibliography
Nederlandse samenvatting
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