Callimachus: The Hymns

by Callimachus

Book Overview

Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined, only his six hymns and around fifty of his epigrams have survived intact. His enormously influential Aetia, the collection of Iambi, the Hecale, and all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199783047
• ISBN13: 9780199783045
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"