Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexandros KampakoglouSeries:Aris & Phillips Classical TextsPublish date:3/28/2025Pages:696
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781802078619ISBN-10:1802078614UPC:9781802078619Book Category:History, Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SC30ENXZ9S
Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments
Few among the surviving Hellenistic poets can rival the fame of Callimachus of Cyrene (approximately 320-240 BCE). Active as a poet and scholar in Ptolemaic Alexandria, Callimachus associated his name with a new set of aesthetic principles that proved influential for such poets as Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. Even so, except for six Hymns and several epigrams, most of his work survives in fragments....
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781802078619ISBN-10:1802078614UPC:9781802078619Book Category:History, Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SC30ENXZ9S
Alexandros Kampakoglou is Research Lecturer in Classics, Trinity College, Oxford. His previous publications include Studies in the reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic poetry (De Gruyter, 2019) and several papers and book chapters on Greek poetry.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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