The Shadow of Callimachus
Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome
Part of Roman Literature and its Contexts
- Author: Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521691796
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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.
Read more- First study to take account of a recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic poetry
- First study to consider the whole range of Greek poetry of the Hellenistic era in relation to Latin poetry
- Provides a cultural, not just literary, history of the Roman reception of Greek literature
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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
See more reviews'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
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521691796
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 199 x 133 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.22kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. In the grove
2. In the grip of the god?
3. Nothing like this before
4. The shadows lengthen
Afterword.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Hellenistic poetry
- Roman Poetry
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