The Shadow of Callimachus Hardback: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome (Roman Literature and its Contexts) - Hardcover

Hunter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521871182 ISBN 13: 9780521871181

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Examines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The critical readings offered embrace not just the central figures of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes but the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry.

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Through his magisterial command of ancient literature and modern scholarship, everywhere in evidence in his latest book, Hunter has enhanced our appreciation of the lengths to which poets in the Late Republic and Augustan era went to emerge from the shadow and bask in a light now fully their own.' BMCR

'As hunter says in his concluding sentence, 'In the stare of the evidence, fragmentary glimpses of partial truths are probably the best for which we can hope.' Hunter has given us much more than 'fragmentary glimpses' in a volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar of ancient poetry.' Latomus

Biografía del autor:

Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include Theocritus: A Selection (1999), Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (2003), Plato's Symposium (2004), and (with M. Fantuzzi), Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (2004).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521871182
• ISBN 13: 9780521871181
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174