Callimachus and his critics / Alan Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Alan, 1938- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--Egypt--Alexandria--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Callimachus--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Callimachus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works, and interrelationships of most of the other leading poets of the age. Another axiom of modern scholarship is that the object of Callimachus's literary polemic was epic. Yet Cameron shows that the thriving school of epic poets celebrating the wars of Hellenistic kings that has so dominated modern study simply never existed. Elegy was the fashionable genre of the age, and the bone of contention between Callimachus and his rivals (all fellow elegists) was the nature of elegiac narrative. A final chapter sketches some of the implications of this revised view of Callimachus and his world for the interpretation of Roman, especially Augustan, poetry.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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 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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691606125

0691606129

OCLC:

1016822387