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Previous scholarship has laid out some important groundwork on Ovid's use of Callimachus' Aetia as a model for the Fasti , yet some significant resemblances between the two poems have not been adequately recognized. The poems share notable structural features, and Ovid imitates …

Modern scholarship has shown that Callimachus' poetics is a poetics of reinvention, one that demands to be read against other specific literary works. In the past, scholars have focused on Callimachus' relationship to his poetic antecedents, while studies of the poet's engagemen…

“Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry” provides a study of the literary humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry in the context of rapid political and cultural change in the Ancient Mediterranean of the third century BCE. This project clarifies several questions connected …