1st Edition
Realism in Alexandrian Poetry A Literature and its Audience
1. Definitions and a Sample 2. The Hellenistic Theory of Pictorial Realism 3. The Practice of Pictorial Realism 4. The Appeal to Science 5. The Ancient Theory and Pre-Alexandrian Practice of Everyday and Low Realism 6. The Everyday and the Low in Alexandrian Poetry Conclusion
Biography
Graham Zanker is Emeritus Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His latest books include Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art, Herodas: Mimiambs, and Fate and the Hero in Virgil’s Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility. He has been awarded fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Tübingen, Cincinnati, the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
Review of the first publication:
“In this valuable, suggestive and learned book Zanker discusses the exploitation of realism by poets of the Alexandrian movement from Aratus and Philetas to Moschus and Bion. His presentation is exemplary: theoretical issues are invariably followed by practical illustrations (in which the poets are generally surveyed seriatim) and each stage of the argument is clearly signposted in advance and equipped with its own conclusion.”
— The Classical Review, Volume 38, Issue 2, October 1988
