The Exagoge of Ezekiel and fifth-century tragedy. Similarities of theme and concept

Abstract

Hellenistic poetry on the whole was written for a private audience attached to a royal court for which the arts were associated with power; naturally, such an audience was well educated and well aware of mythology, history, and the forms of earlier and contemporary literature. In Hellenistic times, cultural influences were transmitted either as a conscious imitation of classical Greek thought, esp. that of the fifth-century B.C. writers, or as an unconscious assimilation1. The compound of literary elements in a new literary product forms the typically Hellenistic phenomenon of fusion, namely a RAPPROCHEMENT of literary trends and, at the same time, a transgression of the boundaries between literary genres. Like the other forms of Hellenistic poetry, dramatic poetry, as far as our evidence goes, seems to have been an amalgam of earlier literary trends.KeywordsLiterary GenreGreek TragedyUnbearable SufferingRoyal CourtGreek LiteratureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.