Book contents
- Ancient Greek Lists
- Ancient Greek Lists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Tally of Text
- 1 A Number of Things
- 2 “Or Such a Woman as…”
- 3 Displaying the Past
- 4 Stone Treasuries
- 5 Citizens Who Count
- 6 Unified Infinities, Catalogic Chronotopes
- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
6 - Unified Infinities, Catalogic Chronotopes
Disordering Lists in Early Hellenistic Poetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2021
Book contents
- Ancient Greek Lists
- Ancient Greek Lists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Tally of Text
- 1 A Number of Things
- 2 “Or Such a Woman as…”
- 3 Displaying the Past
- 4 Stone Treasuries
- 5 Citizens Who Count
- 6 Unified Infinities, Catalogic Chronotopes
- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
Chapter 6 examines aspects of the reception of catalogue in early Hellenistic poetry, focusing on Callimachus and Hermesianax. These poets, I argue, exploit catalogue as a non-mimetic form, using it to defy traditional ways of counting, and traditional orderings and boundaries of space and time. In their hands, the catalogue poem becomes a locus of disorder and fantasy.
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- Ancient Greek ListsCatalogue and Inventory Across Genres, pp. 186 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021