EAN: 9783110479126

TRAGIC FAILURES - EVINA SISTAKOU GEBUNDEN

This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of
the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria  where the
Ptolemies fostered tragedy as a theatrical form for public entertainment and as an official
genre cultivated by the Pleiad  whereas the scholars of the Museum were commissioned to edit
and comment on the classical tragic texts. More importantly  the notion of the tragic was
adapted to the literary trends of the era. Released from the strict rules established by
Aristotle about what makes a good tragedy  the major poets of the Alexandrian avant-garde
struggled to transform the tragic idea and integrate it into non-dramatic genres. Tragic
Failures traces the incorporation of the tragic idea in the poetry of Callimachus and
Theocritus  in Apollonius epic Argonautica  in the iambic Alexandra  in late Hellenistic poetry
and in Parthenius Erotika Pathemata. It offers a fascinating insight into the new conception of
the tragic dilemmas in the context of Alexandrian aesthetics.

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