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Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry

Leonardo Cazzadori(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 26. Mai 2025

IX, 281 Seiten

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Cover
Title
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Criticism of ancient genres
1.2 Approaches to Hellenistic didactic poetry
1.3 Structure of the work
Part A. Theory of the didactic form
2. The idea of didactic
2.1 The term didascalicus in antiquity
2.2 Theories of the didactic genre in the eighteenth century
2.3 Ancient didactic poems in the eighteenth century
2.4 Didactic poems in antiquity: the earliest discourses about genre and canon
2.4.1 Cicero, Aratus and Nicander: the implied genre
2.4.2 Manilius' survey of didactic poems?
2.4.3 Quintilian and the working of canons
2.4.4 Plutarch, knowledge and the exceptional genre
2.5 Beyond the construct of didacticism
3. Hellenistic didactic poems: forms and contexts
3.1 How didactic poems teach: the concept of expository rhetoric
3.1.1 Obscure or attractive subject matter?
3.1.2 Didactic poetry and rhetoric: state of the art
3.1.3 Expository rhetoric and the form of didactic poetry
3.2 A booming genre: survey of didactic poems from the Hellenistic period
3.2.1 Accounting for the fourth century b.c
3.2.2 Didactic poems and scale
3.2.3 Didactic poems and a?t?a
3.2.4 History and didactic poems
3.2.5 ?at?????? and collecting
3.2.6 Survey of Hellenistic didactic poems
3.3 Performing didactic poems in the Hellenistic period
3.3.1 Beginnings: away from performance and the masses?
3.3.2 Didactic poetry and ancient schools
3.3.3 ????e? and ?????se??: a problematic context
3.3.4 Reading culture and the paratext of didactic poems
Part B. The Hellenistic didactic poems
4. A lesson in haute cuisine: Archestratus of Gela
4.1 Knowledge, rhetoric and literary culture in the fourth century b.c
4.1.1 Performing knowledge: ?p?de???? speeches
4.1.2 The communication setting of the ?p?de????
4.1.3 Epideictic rhetoric and the spectacle of knowledge
4.1.4 Epideictic rhetoric and the 'written' style
4.1.5 The invention of the attentive audience
4.1.6 Aristotle's Empedocles
4.2 Facts and rhetoric: displaying knowledge in the Hedypatheia
4.2.1 Expository segments in didactic poetry: general remarks
4.2.2 The setting of the poem
4.2.3 The rhetoric of places
4.2.4 The rhetoric of excellence
4.2.5 The rhetoric of practical advice
5. Recounting the stars: Aratus of Soli
5.1 Framing and concealing the exposition in the Phaenomena
5.1.1 The eccentric opening of the poem
5.1.2 From stars to weather- signs: hidden transition
5.1.3 The ?p?????? of the poem: delaying and closure
5.2 Aratus' expository rhetoric and the ambivalent addressee
5.2.1 The instructional mode of rhetoric
5.2.2 The prescriptive mode of rhetoric
5.2.3 The descriptive mode of rhetoric
5.2.4 Blended rhetoric and p??????a
5.3 Conclusions: Aratus and the modes of expository rhetoric
6. Useful verses: Nicander, Apollodorus and Pseudo- Scymnus
6.1 Nicander
6.1.1 The expository frame in the poems Theriaca and Alexipharmaca
6.1.2 Theriaca and the legacy of Aratus' rhetoric
6.1.3 Alexipharmaca: a rhetoric of simplicity?
6.2 Apollodorus, Pseudo- Scymnus and the epitome of facts
6.2.1 Memorising facts in the Chronica of Apollodorus
6.2.2 Pseudo- Scymnus: instructions for comfortable readers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Sources
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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