Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to 20 BC, Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker offers exciting new interpretations by closely comparing poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other.
Graham Zanker is associate professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of The Heart of Achilles and Realism in Alexandrian Poetry.
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Chapel Hill) Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. (George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina