Callimachus in Context

by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens

Book Overview

Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often understood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107008573
• ISBN13: 9781107008571
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"