Callimachus and His Critics / / Alan Cameron.

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 first time, sugg...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1995
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5209
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Physical Description:1 online resource (548 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Frequently Used Abbreviations
  • Chronologia Callimachea
  • Chapter I. Cyrene, Court and Kings
  • Chapter II. The Ivory Tower
  • Chapter III. The Symposium
  • Chapter IV. Prologue and Dream
  • Chapter V. The Ician Guest
  • Chapter VI. Epilogue and Iambi
  • Chapter VII. Callimachus Senex
  • Chapter VIII. The Telchines
  • Chapter IX. Mistresses and Dates
  • Chapter X. Hellenistic Epic
  • Chapter XI. Fat Ladies
  • Chapter XII. One Continuous Poem
  • Chapter XIII. Hesiodic Elegy
  • Chapter XIV. The Cyclic Poem
  • Chapter XV. The Hymn to Apollo
  • Chapter XV. The Hymn to Apollo
  • Chapter XVII. Hecale and Epyllion
  • Chapter XVIII. Vergil and the Augustan Recusatio
  • Appendix A. Hedylus and Lyde
  • Appendix B. Thin Gentlemen
  • Appendix C. Asclepiades's Girlfriends
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index Locorum