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Language: en
Pages: 414
Pages: 414
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, th
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
"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
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 1755 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
This book offers a detailed discussion of Callimachus' collection of Iambi, arguably one of the earliest surviving Greek 'books of poetry'. There are chapters o
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-03 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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