The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome - Couverture rigide

Hunter, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521871182 ISBN 13 : 9780521871181

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries stands at the heart of the book, the individual studies embrace the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry, both high literary productions and the more marginal poetry, such as that in honour of the great goddess Isis. The singularity of the poetry of Catullus and Virgil, of Horace and the elegists, emerges as more rich and complex than has hitherto been appreciated. Individual studies concern the poets' declared attitudes to their own work, the figure of Dionysus/Bacchus and the poetry of world conquest, the creation of similes, and the conversion of Greek bucolic into Latin pastoral.

Revue de presse :

Through his magisterial command of ancient literature and modern scholarship, everywhere in evidence in his latest book, Hunter has enhanced our appreciation of the lengths to which poets in the Late Republic and Augustan era went to emerge from the shadow and bask in a light now fully their own.' BMCR

'As hunter says in his concluding sentence, 'In the stare of the evidence, fragmentary glimpses of partial truths are probably the best for which we can hope.' Hunter has given us much more than 'fragmentary glimpses' in a volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar of ancient poetry.' Latomus

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521871182
• ISBN 13: 9780521871181
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 174