Callimachus: the epigrams edited with introduction, translation, and commentary edited by Susan A. Stephens and Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stephens, Susan A., editor.

Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, 1960- editor.

Series:

Trends in classics - Supplementary volumes 1868-4785 volume 174

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Callimachus. Epigrams.

Callimachus.

Callimachus. Epigrams--Translations into English.

Epigrams, Greek--Translations into English.

Epigrams, Greek.

Epigrams (Callimachus).

Genre:

Translations

Physical Description:

1 online resource illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Epigrams

Place of Publication:

Berlin De Gruyter [2025]

Language Note:

Text in Ancient Greek, with English introduction and commentary

Summary:

"Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies of these poems and the history of their collection, as well as by the publication in 2001 of a newly found papyrus, P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, that preserves over 100 epigrams of Posidippus of Pela. Missing hitherto in this proliferation of new scholarship on epigram is an edition and commentary in English on the epigrams of Callimachus, one of the leading and most widely imitated creative figures of this period, an artist who composed in a wide variety of poetic genres, one of which was epigram. Callimachus' epigrams adumbrate a broad selection of types, among them sepulchral, dedicatory, epideictic and erotic poems; the poems are brilliant artworks themselves and are among the most illuminating examples of this poetic genre. Scholarship on Callimachus tends to favor the fragmentary poems (the Aetia, the Hecale, the Iambi etc.) over the extant; our study seeks to redress this imbalance, and to cast a new interpretive light upon these glittering gems, which came to be widely admired and imitated in both later Greek and Latin poetry"-- De Gruyter Brill

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 22, 2025)

Contains:

Container of : Callimachus. Epigrams.

Container of : Callimachus. Epigrams. English.

Other Format:

Print version Callimachus: the epigrams

ISBN:

9783110770575

3110770571

9783110770490

3110770490

OCLC:

1518927628

Publisher Number:

CIPO000216219

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license