The poet's display : the genre of hellenistic expository poetry
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- From the middle of the fourth century BCE, Greeks started composing poetry that conveyed information about one or more aspects of the natural or social world. Despite the great variety of topics, the poems shared key features that made them stand out as a genre. My dissertation argues that the label "didactic poetry" does not capture these features. I treat this genre as "expository poetry" and interpret it in the context of early Hellenistic culture. The poets' goal was to display knowledge. Thus, a hallmark of this poetry is to feature a multifaceted "rhetoric of exposition" in the texts. I also explore how ancient readers experienced this rhetoric, responding to its pleasing, authoritative or playful qualities
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Cazzadori, Leonardo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Netz, Reviel |
| Degree supervisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Thesis advisor | Netz, Reviel |
| Thesis advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Thesis advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Degree committee member | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Leonardo Cazzadori |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Leonardo Cazzadori
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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