"This book offers a detailed discussion of Callimachus' collection of Iambi, arguably one of the earliest surviving Greek 'poetry books'. Dr Kerkhecker has set out chapters on individual poems which examine the evidence for the text; address questions of linguistic and antiquari…
Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the …
This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his "Aetia prologue and "Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's "Metamorphoses. The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re- )examination of the lexical allusions in the "Aetia's and "Metamorp…
"This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re- ) examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia's and Metamorphos…
This study of Callimachus' and Ovid's allusive practice offers a unique view of the application of one theory of allusion (based upon that of Conte, but subsequently expanded upon) to a Greek and Latin poet.
"Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries, s…
"Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries, s…
