The Poems of Callimachus

by Callimachus

Book Overview

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, the range of his achievements, and the difficulties in the way of appreciation. It does not offer, as other translations do, a mere
selection of fragments but presents them as integral parts of the poetry books in which they originally figured, as these can be reconstructed in the light of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198152248
• ISBN13: 9780198152248
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"