Commentary: Difference and Dissonance in Hellenistic Poetry

Abstract

Although there are benefits from genre criticism, textual and literary analysis that is based on spotting similarities and classifying into categories can mislead and limit us as readers, for Hellenistic poetry exhibits constant non-conformity. Hence, the requirements of our senses or instincts as trained, scholarly readers will be a better guide to methodology and truth tha will theoretical preconceptions.