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Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Release : 2012-01-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Callimachus in Context by : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Download or read book Callimachus in Context written by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes. This book was released on 2012-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, provocative treatment of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus and his reception, approaching his work from four varied yet complementary angles.
Author : Callimachus
Release : 1755
Genre : Greek poetry
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Book Synopsis The Hymns of Callimachus, by : Callimachus
Download or read book The Hymns of Callimachus, written by Callimachus. This book was released on 1755. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Release : 2012-01-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Callimachus in Context by : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Download or read book Callimachus in Context written by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes. This book was released on 2012-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often understood as metapoetic. This study aims to situate these Callimachuses within a series of interlocking historical and intellectual contexts in order better to understand how they arose. In this narrative of his poetics and poetic reception four main sources of creative opportunism are identified: Callimachus' reactions to philosophers and literary critics as arbiters of poetic authority, the potential of the text as a venue for performance, awareness of Alexandria as a new place, and finally, his attraction for Roman poets.
Author : Callimachus
Release : 2012
Genre : Greek poetry
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Book Synopsis Αίτια by : Callimachus
Download or read book Αίτια written by Callimachus. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.-
Author : Stephanie Burt
Release : 2020-04-14
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis After Callimachus by : Stephanie Burt
Download or read book After Callimachus written by Stephanie Burt. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of free translations from the ancient Greek poet Callimachus, whose surviving work includes the Aitia, a narrative elegy; the Iambi, short poems on occasional themes; and the Hecale, a small-scale epic. The poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written contemporary adaptations of what she calls "Callimachus's lyric, epigrammatic, and narrative genius for our times." These are not literal translations for students of Greek, but instead free translations intended to bring poetry of classical antiquity into modern verse. Considered a major poet in Greek and European readings but not yet in English, Callimachus is remembered for a few sayings, among them 'mega biblion, mega kakon': a big, or long, or great book (an epic, for example) is a great evil, or a big, bad thing. Burt's intention is to make Callimachus' 'miniaturist, irony-loving, anti-macho sensibility' more accessible to Anglophone readers, with the advantage that Callimachus 'speaks without centuries of great English poets who have already adapted him'"--
