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Callimachus of Cyrene born ca 310 BCE after studying philosophy at Athens became a teacher of grammar and poetry at Alexandria Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt reigned 285247 made him when still young a librarian in the new library at Alexandria he prepared a great catalogue of its booksCallimachus was author of much poetry and many works in prose but not much survives His hymns and epigrams are given with works by Aratus and Lycophron in another volume no 129 of the Loeb Classical Library In the present volume are included fragments of the Aetia Causes aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs fragments of a book of Iambi 147 fragments of the epic poem Hecale which described Theseuss victory over the bull which infested Marathon and other fragmentsWe have no explicit information about the poet Musaeus author of the short epic poem on Hero and Leander except that he is given in some manuscripts the title Grammatikos a teacher learned in the rhetoric poetry and philosophy of his time He was obviously a follower of the Egyptian poet Nonnus of Panopolis of the fifth century AD and his poem seems also to presuppose the Paraphrase of the Psalms of PseudoApollinarius which can be dated to the period 460470Musaeus takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovids Heroides Epistles 18 and 19 but he presents it in a quite different manner Among the literary antecedents to which this learned grammatikos expressly alludes the most prominent are Books 5 and 6 of the Odyssey and Platos Phaedrus He draws too on the Hymns of Proclus and the Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St John by Nonnus He was most probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory
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This book provides a new literary treatment of an oftenoverlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century BCE 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 Horaces 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 linebyline commentary notes and literary analysisThe 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 AcostaHughes 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 poets artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and HipponaxPolyeideia 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
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This book provides a new literary treatment of an oftenoverlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century BCE 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 Horaces 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 linebyline commentary notes and literary analysisThe 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 AcostaHughes 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 poets artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and HipponaxPolyeideia 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
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This edition presents and examines in detail the Hecale of Callimachus perhaps the most brilliant imaginative and enjoyable example of Greek poetry in Ptolemaic Alexandria Set in Attica and full of local color the poem describes how the hero Theseus was entertained by an old woman Hecale on the night before he captured the monstrous bull at Marathon Drawing on important new discoveries this edition contains the most complete and uptodate collection of texts and testimonia on the Hecale and discusses allusions to and imitations of the poem in later Greek and Latin poetry
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