Theocrite

Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else book is fine. Minor shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Taking as his starting point the whole canon of Alexandrian poetry, Dr Zanker surveys the use of the realistic mode in works like the Idylls of Theocritus, including such matters as the humorous elements of Callimachus' Hymns, the love-story in Apollonius' Argonautica, and the low-life sketches of epyllia like Hecale as well as the Mimes of Herodas. ; 280 pages; Contents: Definitions and a Sample; Hellenistic Theory of Pictoral Realism; Practice of Pictoral Realism; Appeal to Science; Ancient Theory and Pre-Alexandrian Practice of Everyday and Low Realism; Everyday and the Low in Alexandrian Poetry.