IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature, A. Biography. Fasc. 3. Hermippos of Smyrna [No. 1026]

by J. Bollansie, Jan Bollansee, Guido Schepens

The literary activity of Hermippos of Smyrna (2nd half 3rd century B.C.) covered various fields, but he mainly gained fame as a biographer of celebrities in the cultural and literary sphere: legislators, the Seven Sages, philosophers, rhetoricians, poets.
The present study (edition, translation and commentary) of the fragmentary remains of his biographical and other historical works shows Hermippos firmly entrenched in the Alexandrian intellectual...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004113037
• ISBN13: 9789004113039
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 664 Pages