J. Andrew Foster is Assistant Professor of Classics at Fordham University. He has written several articles and reviews on a wide variety of Classical subjects including Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Hellenistic poetry, and Platonic dialog. He is also co-author with Kathryn Kueny of a study of the bee as a religious symbol in Antiquity.

• Contents: Introduction: Text, Voice, and Audience – Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6 – Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11 – Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13 – Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic – Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their «Reception» in Idyll 15 – Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read.

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J. Andrew Foster is Assistant Professor of Classics at Fordham University. He has written several articles and reviews on a wide variety of Classical subjects including Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Hellenistic poetry, and Platonic dialog. He is also co-author with Kathryn Kueny of a study of the bee as a religious symbol in Antiquity.

• Contents: Introduction: Text, Voice, and Audience – Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6 – Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11 – Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13 – Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic – Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their «Reception» in Idyll 15 – Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read.

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J. Andrew Foster is Assistant Professor of Classics at Fordham University. He has written several articles and reviews on a wide variety of Classical subjects including Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Hellenistic poetry, and Platonic dialog. He is also co-author with Kathryn Kueny of a study of the bee as a religious symbol in Antiquity.

• Contents: Introduction: Text, Voice, and Audience – Situational Incongruities: Narrators and Audiences in Idyll 6 – Poet and Metapoesis in Idyll 11 – Herakles the Sympotic Argonaut: Allusion, Emulation, and Narrative Innovation in Idyll 13 – Nemean 1 and Idyll 24: The Poetics of Heroic – Arsinoe as Epic Queen: Hosts, Hospitality, and Their «Reception» in Idyll 15 – Conclusion: Voices Heard and Read.

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