Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics - Wisconsin Studies in Classics - Mark Heerink - Books - University of Wisconsin Press - 9780299305444 - December 15, 2015
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Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics - Wisconsin Studies in Classics


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This book argues that Greek and Roman poets throughout classical antiquity used the myth of the lost boy Hylas and the hero Hercules to reflect allegorically on their own poetry and its position in literary history, and thus offers a unique diachronic case study of ancient self-reflexive poetry.


264 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 15, 2015
ISBN13 9780299305444
Publishers University of Wisconsin Press
Pages 264
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   530 g   (Weight (estimated))

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