Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
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Natalie Haynes' 2019 novel A Thousand Ships (ATS) rewrites several classical texts from a female perspective. In doing so, the novel specifically engages with the epic genre and the epic tradition....Show moreNatalie Haynes' 2019 novel A Thousand Ships (ATS) rewrites several classical texts from a female perspective. In doing so, the novel specifically engages with the epic genre and the epic tradition. Inspired by the field of reception studies, this thesis aims to describe the (re)definition of epic offered in ATS, to understand where it comes from, and to critically assess it in the face of the ancient text(s) it is based on.Show less
Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
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2025-05-07T00:00:00Z
In this thesis, I assess the reception of Hesiod and Aratus in the Garland of Philip, a period of their reception which has not received much attention yet. In the first chapter, I analyse three...Show moreIn this thesis, I assess the reception of Hesiod and Aratus in the Garland of Philip, a period of their reception which has not received much attention yet. In the first chapter, I analyse three epigrams alluding to Aratus; in the second, three more alluding to Hesiod. I conclude that they are seen as serious, boring poets, unfitting to revel, love and wine and the poetics of sympotic epigram. Moreover, I argue that they have been received, especially by Antipater, through the lens of Callimachus, against whom the Macedonian poet maintains a polemical stance.Show less
