Author: CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems, Hecale, minor epic and elegiac poems, fragments of epigrams, fragments of uncertain location
Author: CallimachusAetia
Author: CallimachusAetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems
Author: . . . CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674997349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.
Aetia, Iambi, Lyric Poems, Hecale, Minor Epic and Elegiac Poems, and Other Fragments
Author: CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In the present volume are included fragments of Callimachus' "Aetia (Causes), aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs; fragments of a book of "Iambi; 147 fragments of the epic poem "Hecale, which described Theseus' victory over the bull which infested Marathon; and other fragments. It also contains the short epic poem on "Hero and Leander by Musaeus.
Αίτια
Author: CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN: 0199581010
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1443
Book Description
Callimachus' Aetia, written in Alexandria in the third century BC, was an important and influential poem which inspired many later Greek and Latin poets. Papyrus finds show that it was widely read until late antiquity and perhaps well into the Byzantine period. Eventually the work was lost, but thanks to many quotations by ancient authors and substantial papyrus finds a considerable part of it has now been recovered. The aim of the present volumes is to make the Aetia newly accessible to readers. Volume 1 (9780198144915) comprises an introduction dealing with matters such as the work's composition, contents, date, literary aspects, and its function in the cultural and historical context of third-century BC Alexandria, and a text of all the fragments of the Aetia with a translation and critical apparatus; while Volume 2 (9780198144922) presents a detailed commentary, including introductions to the separate aetiological stories.-
Aetia
Author: CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674994638
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Aetia; Iambi; Lyric Poems; Hecale Minor Epic and Elegiac Poems-and Other Fragments
Author: CallimachusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674994638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poems in Context
Author: Laura Miguélez-CaveroPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311021041X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region (Thebaid), this study provides an image of three centuries in the history of the Graeco-Egyptian literature, in which authors and poetry are related directly to the social-economic, cultural and literary contexts from which they come. The training they could get and the books and authors they came in touch with explain that we know so many names and works, written in a language and metrics that enjoyed the greatest esteem, being considered proofs of the highest culture. Laura Miguélez Cavero demonstrates that the traditional image of a “school of Nonnos” is not justified ‐ rather, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, Musaeus, Colluthus, Cyrus of Panopolis and Christodorus of Coptos are just the tip of a literary iceberg we know only to some extent through the texts that papyri offer us.
Pindar's Verbal Art
Author: James Bradley WellsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.
Polyeideia
Author: Benjamin Acosta-HughesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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 as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English, along with line-by-line commentary, notes, and literary analysis. The structure of the book is thematic, with chapters focusing on such topics as poetic voice, fable, ethical criticism, and statuary. Each chapter consists of an introduction, text and selected critical apparatus, translation, and comprehensive thematic discussion. Acosta-Hughes focuses especially on Callimachus' manipulation of traditional features of archaic iambic poetry such as persona loquens, ethical and critical message, and eristic dialogue. He also includes a detailed analysis of the Alexandrian poet's artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and Hipponax. Polyeideia will interest not only readers of Greek and Hellenistic poetry but also readers of Roman satire and invective verse, as well as those intrigued by the processes of memorializing and fashioning poetic culture.