Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition Volume 35

by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520220609
• ISBN13: 9780520220607
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"