Brills Companion To Callimachus Brills Companions To Classical Studies Bilingual Benjamin Acostahughes by Benjamin Acosta-hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan A. Stephens 9789004156739, 9004156739 instant download after payment.

This volume is the combined effort of over thirty scholars. They analyize Callimachus, the 3rd-century Alexandrian poet, from literary and technical perspectives, reception and influence. It is designed to facilitate the work of scholars and teachers in the classroom. Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much
reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active
at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century
BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and
abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an
artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet
second only to Homer in his later reception.
For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the
diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic
achievement. Brill’s Companion to Callimachus has been designed
to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of
editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and
social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his
scholarship is taking.