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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art Graham Zanker Wisconsin Studies in Classics Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Laura McClure, and Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, Series Editors “The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and synthetic treatment of the activity of viewing in the Hellenistic world.” —Jon Steffen Bruss, The Classical Review Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand. Graham Zanker is professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of The Heart of Achilles and Realism in Alexandrian Poetry. Praise: “No other book currently exists that so systematically attempts to unite evidence from art and poetry to construct a Hellenistic ‘mode of viewing.’ The originality of the work lies in the way it brings together material that is usually discussed in isolation.” —Alexander Sens, Georgetown University “Hellenistic poetry and art from a new and enlightening angle [that] encourages further reflection on the interconnections between the literary and plastic arts and what they tell us about the artists and their times.” —James Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) Of Related Interest Pandora's Senses The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text Vered Lev Kenaan "This book makes an important contribution to three approaches to classics: feminism, myth criticism, and textual theory. Lev Kenaan creatively explores the way female subjectivity is embedded in masculine texts."—Margaret M. Toscano, The Classical Review Ovid before Exile Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses Patricia J. Johnson “Johnson offer[s] useful interpretive observations, especially on Ovid’s use of his Greek and Latin influences.”—Choice

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