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This study focuses on the reception of tragedy and the tragic in Hellenistic poetry. It illustrates how classical tragedy and the tragic idea were incorporated in the poems of Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius’ Argonautica, the iambic Alexandra and late Hellenistic poetry. It demonstrates that ‘the tragic’ was not doomed to failure in the postclassical world but lived on through the works of the great Alexandrian poets and their followers.Content:Introduction: From Tragedy to the Tragic Tragedy, from Athens to AlexandriaThe contexts of Hellenistic tragedyPtolemaic cultural politics and tragedyPerforming, reciting or reading tragedy?Tragedy enters the Library The Metaclassical TragicTragedy as philosophy and its Hellenistic reworkingThe impossibility of Aristotelian tragedyCallimachus on (not) writing tragedyEstablishing tragedy and the tragic in Alexandria Alexandrian TragedyThe star system of the Alexandrian tragediansRupture and revival of tragic mythHistorical tragedy makes a comebackGeneric divergences and tragic crossovers Callimachus Displaces the TragicTranscending the tragic in the HymnsTragic fragmentariness in the AetiaHecale, a mundane tragedy Redefining the Tragic in the Idylls of TheocritusA messenger speech without a messengerThe bucolic world’s a stageSimaetha’s tragic failures Tragedy into Epic in Apollonius’ ArgonauticaDistilling Attic tragedy into the ArgonauticaEpic teleologies and tragic modalitiesAn Alexandrian epic on tragic passions In the Metatragic Cosmos of the AlexandraThe Alexandra, a metatragic playFrom the tragedy of Cassandra to ‘becoming Alexandra’Tragedy as textual unconscious The Romantic TragicDomesticizing tragedyThe tragedy of loveParthenius, from tragedy to melodramaConclusion: Tragic Failures and Hellenistic ChallengesBibliographyIndexDe Gruyter, juillet 2016Marque éditoriale :  De GruyterISBN :  9783110480634249p.