Aetia Iambi Lyric Poems Callimachus Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

The Premier Scholar-Poet Of Hellenistic Age Callimachus (Ca 303–Ca 235 Bc) A Proud And Well-Born Native Cyrene In Libya Came As Young Man To Court Ptolemies At Alexandria Where He Composed Poetry For Royal Family Helped Establish Library Museum World Center Literature Science Scholarship Wrote An Estimated 800 Volumes Prose On Astounding Variety Subjects Including Pinakes Descriptive Bibliography Library’s Holdings 120 Callimachus’ Vast Learning Richly Informs His Which Ranges Broadly Reworks Language Generic Properties Predecessors Inventive Refined Expressive Ways “Callimachean” Style Combining Elegance Innovation Prizing Brevity Clarity Lightness Charm Served Important Model Later Poets Not Least Rome Catullus Virgil Horace Ovid Elegists Among Others This Edition Replaces Earlier Loeb Editions By W Mair (1921) C Trypanis (1954 1958) Presents All That Currently Survives About Works Ancient Commentaries (Diegeseis) Scholia Volume I Contains Aetia Iambi Lyric Poems Ii Hecale Hymns Epigrams Iii Miscellaneous Epics Elegies Other Fragments Testimonia Together With Concordances General Index Greek Text Is Based Mainly Pfeiffer’s But Enriched Subsequently Published Papyri Judgment Editors Its Notes Annotation Are Fully Informed Current Σελίδες: 608 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0328 Διαστάσεις: 10 8X10 8Cm