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Title:The Teaching Poet
Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry
Person: Cazzadori, Leonardo
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Main Author: Cazzadori, Leonardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2025
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature
Subjects:
literary form > Greek literature > Ritualtheorie > science in literature > Alte Geschichte
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-164677-5
Summary:In his study of didactic poetry in Hellenistic Greece, Leonardo Cazzadori explores the intellectual history of the concept of "didactic" poetry, analyses the cultural background of the poems (fourth to second centuries B.C.), and examines the poems' rhetorical strategies in popularizing scientific discourse and describing the natural world.
Leonardo Cazzadori untersucht in seinem Werk über die Lehrdichtung im hellenistischen Griechenland die Ideengeschichte des Konzepts "didaktischer" Dichtung. Er analysiert den kulturellen Kontext der Gedichte (4.-2. Jh. v. Chr.) und untersucht die rhetorischen Strategien der Dichter, um wissenschaftliche Diskurse zu popularisieren und die Umwelt zu beschreiben.
Leonardo Cazzadori presents the first comprehensive and comparative study of Greek didactic poetry from the Hellenistic period (ca. 350-30 B.C.). He traces the intellectual history of didactic poetry, analysing ancient and modern implications of this literary category. The author further investigates the rhetorical and stylistic features of Hellenistic didactic poetry, shedding light on the textual strategies that shape and define its instructional and explanatory function. He argues that Hellenistic didactic poetry played a crucial role in establishing a new poetic domain - one that enabled the popularization of scientific discourse and fostered imaginative and insightful descriptions. By examining this innovative poetic form, Leonardo Cazzadori offers fresh perspectives on ancient Greek literary culture, and, more broadly, the interactions between science, the natural world, and literature.Survey of contents1. Introduction1.1 Criticism of ancient genres1.2 Approaches to Hellenistic didactic poetry1.3 Structure of the work Part A. Theory of the didactic form2. The idea of didactic2.1 The term didascalicus in antiquity2.2 Theories of the didactic genre in the eighteenth century2.3 Ancient didactic poems in the eighteenth century2.4 Didactic poems in antiquity: The earliest discourses about genre and canon2.5 Beyond the construct of didacticism3. Hellenistic didactic poems: Forms and contexts3.1 How didactic poems teach: the concept of expository rhetoric3.2 A booming genre: survey of didactic poems from the Hellenistic period3.3 Performing didactic poems in the Hellenistic period Part B. The Hellenistic didactic poems4. A lesson in haute cuisine: Archestratus of Gela4.1 Knowledge, rhetoric and literary culture in the fourth century B.C.4.2 Facts and rhetoric: displaying knowledge in the Hedypatheia5. Recounting the stars: Aratus of Soli5.1 Framing and concealing the exposition in the Phaenomena5.2 Aratus' expository rhetoric and the ambivalent addressee5.3 Conclusions: Aratus and the modes of expository rhetoric6. Useful verses: Nicander, Apollodorus and Pseudo-Scymnus6.1 Nicander6.2 Apollodorus, Pseudo-Scymnus and the epitome of factsConclusion
Leonardo Cazzadori untersucht in seinem Werk über die Lehrdichtung im hellenistischen Griechenland die Ideengeschichte des Konzepts "didaktischer" Dichtung. Er analysiert den kulturellen Kontext der Gedichte (4.-2. Jh. v. Chr.) und untersucht die rhetorischen Strategien der Dichter, um wissenschaftliche Diskurse zu popularisieren und die Umwelt zu beschreiben.Inhalts+uuml;bersicht1. Introduction1.1 Criticism of ancient genres1.2 Approaches to Hellenistic didactic poetry1.3 Structure of the work Part A. Theory of the didactic form2. The idea of didactic2.1 The term didascalicus in antiquity2.2 Theories of the didactic genre in the eighteenth century2.3 Ancient didactic poems in the eighteenth century2.4 Didactic poems in antiquity: The earliest discourses about genre and canon2.5 Beyond the construct of didacticism3. Hellenistic didactic poems: Forms and contexts3.1 How didactic poems teach: the concept of expository rhetoric3.2 A booming genre: survey of didactic poems from the Hellenistic period3.3 Performing didactic poems in the Hellenistic period Part B. The Hellenistic didactic poems4. A lesson in haute cuisine: Archestratus of Gela4.1 Knowledge, rhetoric and literary culture in the fourth century B.C.4.2 Facts and rhetoric: displaying knowledge in the Hedypatheia5. Recounting the stars: Aratus of Soli5.1 Framing and concealing the exposition in the Phaenomena5.2 Aratus' expository rhetoric and the ambivalent addressee5.3 Conclusions: Aratus and the modes of expository rhetoric6. Useful verses: Nicander, Apollodorus and Pseudo-Scymnus6.1 Nicander6.2 Apollodorus, Pseudo-Scymnus and the epitome of factsConclusion
Item Description:PublicationDate: 20250526
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 281 Seiten)
ISBN:9783161646775

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