Lykophron: Alexandra

by Lykophron

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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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