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This monograph examines the reception of Pindar in the poetry produced at the court of the first three Ptolemies (ca. 305¿222 BCE). Through active engagement with the works of Pindar, poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus responded to the encomiastic needs of their Ptolemaic patrons and fashioned an image of Pindar as the praise poet par excellence.

The penetration of Greek culture in the West is often seen as indissolubly linked to the activity of a few Greek intellectuals, who provided a training in Greek to groups of young Western humanists. While not denying the key role these Greek intellectuals had in the fifteenth century, the current volume aims to broaden our view of a series of phenomena concerned with contact between the West and Greek culture.

This book constitutes the first autonomous monograph on the literary qualities of Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander. Vasileios Liotsakis offers an analysis of Arrian's narrative and language in his portraiture of Alexander the Great, aspiring to thereby shed new light on the ways in which Arrian contributed to the literary representation of the Macedonian king, importantly in terms of both style and interpretation.

Contributions to this volume explore the interconnections between ancient Greek mythographers and their contemporaries working in non-mythographic genres of both poetry and prose. Focus on this dynamic intersection illuminates the Greco-Roman intellectual world in which both operated and highlights for scholars and students of Greek and Latin literature the variety and complexity of ancient Greek mythographic practice.