The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets

by Peter Bing

"Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age." Peter Bing's seminal monograph, The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. In this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which the written work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979971306
• ISBN13: 9780979971303
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Michigan Classical Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"