Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Cultural Revolution, Symphonic Poem, Theocritus

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Nostalgia for great classical age past becomes romanticized. Cultural patronage of the ptolemies: ptolemy founded dynasty so called ptolemy i, ptolemy couldn"t just find best living poets - he wanted to connect alexandria to glorious past, he decided to build a library library of alexandria. Wanted it to have all great texts of ancient greek literature. Ptolemy sent people out to make copie of publicly kept texts i. e. those in the temple of artemis. Needed to catalogue and organize all these texts ptolemy created the. Mouseion (shrine of the muses those who presided over culture, led by apollo, daughters of zeus) Made alexandria focus of greek culture in this period. Catalogued by callimachus (greatest poet of age, scholar: museum (mouseion) A home for people working on the texts scholar-poets famous for its intellectual culture. Many are feeding in populous egypt, scribblers on papyrus, ceaselessly wrangling in the bird- cage of the muses.