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Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with many verse texts and inscriptions. In the process, they offer new insights into the various ways in which late Hellenistic literature engaged with its social, cultural and political contexts, while interrogating and revising some of the standard narratives of the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literary culture, which are too often studied in isolation from each other. As a whole the book prompts us to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history.

Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Greek literature, Hellenistic. --- History and criticism --- Hellenistic Greek literature

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Drawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation. The book asks why and how canonisation works and thereby investigates the importance of the concept of anchoring to arrive at innovation in particular. Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.

Authors, Texts, Literature. --- Biblical Studies. --- Classical Studies. --- Greek & Latin Literature. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Ancient Near East and Egypt. --- Criticism. --- Canon (Literature) --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Assyrian literature --- Persian literature --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Egyptian literature --- Jewish literature --- Hebrew literature --- Roman literature --- Babylonian literature --- Hellenistic Greek literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Jews --- Judaica --- Ancient Egyptian literature --- Pakistani literature --- Akkadian literature --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Evaluation