Aproximación a la poesía didáctica griega fragmentaria de época helenísitca
- A. Balda Baranda (ed. lit.)
- E. Redondo-Moyano (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
ISBN: 9788490828175
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 23-34
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
As in many other genres, the Greek didactic poetry has not escaped from the mutilation of time, so many works, have been preserved only in a fragmentary state. This poetry provides useful knowledge at the same tiem that it provides aesthetic value. It experiences a major boom in the Hellenistic period. Within the fragmentary corpus of didactic authors, which we are compiling, we will focus on several remarkable examples: Archestratus of Gela, author that employed Homeric forms in a parodic way for this culinary piece; Alexander of Ephesus, who wrote a poem about geography and a "Phaenomena"; and Heliodoro Athenian, tragic writer who wrote two books about medicine.