The Teaching Poet

Leonardo Cazzadori untersucht in seinem Werk über die Lehrdichtung im hellenistischen Griechenland die Ideengeschichte des Konzepts »didaktischer« Dichtung. Er analysiert den kulturellen Kontext der Gedichte (4.-2. Jh. v. Chr.) und untersucht die rhetorischen Strategien der Dichter, um wissenschaftliche Diskurse zu popularisieren und die Umwelt zu beschreiben.1. Introduction
1.1 Criticism of ancient genres
1.2 Approaches to Hellenistic didactic poetry
1.3 Structure of the work

Part A. Theory of the didactic form
2. The idea of didactic
2.1 The term didascalicus in antiquity
2.2 Theories of the didactic genre in the eighteenth century
2.3 Ancient didactic poems in the eighteenth century
2.4 Didactic poems in antiquity: The earliest discourses about genre and canon
2.5 Beyond the construct of didacticism
3. Hellenistic didactic poems: Forms and contexts
3.1 How didactic poems teach: the concept of expository rhetoric
3.2 A booming genre: survey of didactic poems from the Hellenistic period
3.3 Performing didactic poems in the Hellenistic period

Part B. The Hellenistic didactic poems
4. A lesson in haute cuisine: Archestratus of Gela
4.1 Knowledge, rhetoric and literary culture in the fourth century B.C.
4.2 Facts and rhetoric: displaying knowledge in the Hedypatheia
5. Recounting the stars: Aratus of Soli
5.1 Framing and concealing the exposition in the Phaenomena
5.2 Aratus’ expository rhetoric and the ambivalent addressee
5.3 Conclusions: Aratus and the modes of expository rhetoric
6. Useful verses: Nicander, Apollodorus and Pseudo-Scymnus
6.1 Nicander
6.2 Apollodorus, Pseudo-Scymnus and the epitome of facts

Conclusion