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mimetic hymns
urban bucolic
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Abstract
Since Callimachus’ mimetic hymns, super-realistic sceneries are common in Alexandrian poetry. This type of ‘realism’, however, only accompanies textual interplay. It may even be subordinated to it, as a new reading of Theocritus’ Adoniazusae (Idyll 15) suggests.
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