The first "modernist" movement of Roman poetry appeared around the middle of the 1st century BC. century, and its representatives, the Younger, compiled the selections of the most important poets of the previous Alexandrian-Hellenistic period. In the present study - for the first time in the Greek as well as in foreign language literature - an attempt is made to systematically and comprehensively describe the grammatical, historical and social developments which fostered Alexandrian aesthetics and poetics, created the immediate conditions of the Roman Modern "turn" and defined to a considerable extent the classical poetry of the Augustan years. The problems of poetic ideology touched upon in the study are not only of historical value. Intertextuality, "pure" poetry, the tensions (but also attempts at synthesis) between the concerns of historical-social life and the narcissisms of formalist aestheticism are some of the issues that are shaken up in this book and which - given the concerns of modern theory of literature - claim topical interest.