This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.
"--David Sider, author of The Epigrams of Philodemos "By recreating, through scholarly accuracy and literary acuity, the original books and Garland of Hellenistic readers, Kathryn Gutzwiller enriches our reading of epigrams. . .
In a book as beautifully written as the poetry it celebrates, Kathryn Gutzwiller uses the famous Idylls of Theocritus to show us the formative processes at work in the creation of a literary genre--the pastoral--and how the very structure ...
This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.