On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception

by Richard L. Hunter

This work gathers together the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter´s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria and the narrative literature of later antiquity (´;the ancient novel´), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purpose of literature, and the intellectual context for ancient poetry.

917 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Richard Lawrence Hunter is an Australian classical scholar. From 2001 to 2021, he was the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.