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This article examines the Periodos to Nicomedes within its literary, cultural and political context. After offering an analysis of how and why the anonymous author creates a work which straddles the boundaries between prose and verse while engaging with contemporary Hellenistic literary critical debates, it argues for the significance of the figure of Homer’s Odysseus in terms of the author’s presentation of an idealized relationship with his real-world patron, the Bithynian monarch Nicomedes. Ultimately the Periodos emerges as a work which is especially fitting for its Bithynian patron in the context of Asia Minor in the late second century b.c.e.

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本文在其文学，文化和政治背景下考察了《尼科米德时报》。在分析了匿名作者在与当代希腊文化文学批判性辩论进行互动时如何以及为何创造出跨越散文与诗句界限的作品之后，作者就荷马的《奥德修斯》形象的作者意义进行了论证。与他的现实世界的赞助人，比塞尼安国君尼科梅德斯建立了理想的关系。最终，Periodos成为一件特别适合其Bithynian赞助人的作品，该作品在公元前二世纪末的亚洲小亚细亚范围内发展起来。