This too is a characteristic phenomenon of the Alexandrians, classicism: that is, the awareness of a kind of profound detachment between the literature of the present and that of the past, and therefore the inclination, indeed the intention, to consider the creations of the past as models (classics par excellence!), which must be studied and […]

Excluding Athens from its position of domination, the center of civilization, and therefore also of literature, moves towards the regions of the East that Alexander the Great conquered and that his successors transformed into various dynastic empires. The capital of the Ptolemies, Alexandria of Egypt, stands out by far; but then the others also come […]