Hodkinson, O orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-5715 (2021) 'How poetic are Philostratus' Erotic Epistles?'. In: Gallé Cejudo, RJ and Sánchez Ortiz De Landaluce, M, (eds.) Stvdia hellenistica gaditana II. Quaderni di Satura . Pensa Multimedia , pp. 221-257. ISBN 9788867608072
Abstract
This chapter reexamines the often mentioned, but rarely precisely defined, ‘poetic’ qualities of Philostratus’ Erotic Epistles. It uses several new approaches to ask what it means for such a prose text to count as poetic (such as compar- isons of vocabulary density statistics and percentage of text hapax legomena with samples of poetic, classical prose, and other imperial prose works) com- bined with traditional factors (‘poetic vocabulary’, prose rhythm, and dense accumulation of several kinds of poetic device). While labels like ‘prose epi- gram’ certainly have merit for some Epistles and passages, others are deter- minedly prosaic (e.g. cases excluding all Homeric and poetic vocabulary while alluding directly to Homeric passages)—an effect I term ‘prosaism’, as the in- verse of the Epistles’ better-known ‘poeticisms’.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Greek sophistic literature; Philostratus' Erotic Epistles; poetic prose; prose miniatures |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Humanities (Leeds) > Classics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2023 15:19 |
Last Modified: | 02 May 2023 15:25 |
Published Version: | https://www.pensamultimedia.it/libro/9788867608072 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Pensa Multimedia |
Series Name: | Quaderni di Satura |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198433 |