Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience by GRAHAM ZANKER ISBN 13: 9780709930051

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Croom Helm, Londen (...), 1987. 250p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. 'In this valuable, suggestive and learned book Zanker discusses the exploitation of realism by poets of the Alexandrian movement form Aratus and Philetas to Moschus and Bion. His presentation is exemplary: theoretical issues are invariably followed by practical illustrations (in which the poets are generally surveyed seriatim) and each stage of the argument is clearly signposted in advance and equipped with ith own conclusion. (...) Z.'s book demonstrates how and why realism was an essential component of Alexandrian poetry.' (A.J. WOODMAN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1988, pp.266-68).

London ; Wolfboro, N.H. : Croom Helm, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 250 pp.; 23 cm. Subjects; Callimachus Criticism and interpretation. Greek poetry, Hellenistic. Realism in literature. Egypt Alexandria. Intellectual life.

Routledge, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bookplate on front endpaper of Philip Howard.

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Croom Helm. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0709930054 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else book is fine. Minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Taking as his starting point the whole canon of Alexandrian poetry, Dr Zanker surveys the use of the realistic mode in works like the Idylls of Theocritus, including such matters as the humorous elements of Callimachus' Hymns, the love-story in Apollonius' Argonautica, and the low-life sketches of epyllia like Hecale as well as the Mimes of Herodas. ; 280 pages; Contents: Definitions and a Sample; Hellenistic Theory of Pictoral Realism; Practice of Pictoral Realism; Appeal to Science; Ancient Theory and Pre-Alexandrian Practice of Everyday and Low Realism; Everyday and the Low in Alexandrian Poetry. .