Hellenistic Poetry

This series complements and completes the course of Hellenistic poetry lectures last term.

Week 1: Aetiology and Callimachus' Aitia

Week 2: Varieties of epic: the so-called epyllion.

Week 3: Epigram.

Week 4: Alexandria and the Ptolemies: poetry and royalty.

Week 5: Learned poetry and ivory towers

Week 6: Hellenism: Greece, Egypt, and the Near East

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