Lykophron: Alexandra
by
Lykophron
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford World's Classics
ISBN-10
0198863349
ISBN-13
9780198863342
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 3rd, 2022
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
140 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.80 x 2.40 cms
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The Alexandra, attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period.
Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid king Antiochos III. The poem is an ingeniously constructed masterpiece, a generic mix with elements of tragedy, epic, and history.Priam''s beautiful daughter, the prophetic Kassandra, foresees her rape in Athena''s temple by the hateful Greek warrior Ajax after Troy''s fall, and warns of disastrous returns (nostoi) for all the Greek ''heroes''. But Troy will rise again as Rome, founded by Trojan refugees. Alexandra (another name for Kassandra), narrates these Mediterranean foundation myths, adopting a bitterly disillusioned female perspective, but culminating in prophecies of Roman rule over land and sea.
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