Callimachus and His Critics

by Alan Cameron

Book Overview

Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the first time, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691043671
• ISBN13: 9780691043678
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.8" x 10.0"