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This is an exceptional translation of the works of an exceptional poet. Though little known in modern times, Callimachus is one of the high-water marks of ancient Greece: a literary giant in the Hellenistic period, leader of the Alexandrian school, model of poetic craft for Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, and others. But up to now the path to his greatness has been hard for Greekless readers to follow. Nourished in a venerated poetic tradition, scholarly and allusive, he preferred "the trickling dew from a mountain's holy spring" to the muddy current down river. This translation--clear-flowing, graceful, witty--revives a fading giant. A literary triumph Library Journal

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Foreword, by D.S. Carne-Ross
Introduction
Part I. Hymns
Part II. Epigrams
Part III. Fragments
Notes

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 1988
      ISBN-13 9780801832819
      978-0801832819
      ISBN-10 0801832810

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      This is an exceptional translation of the works of an exceptional poet. Though little known in modern times, Callimachus is one of the high-water marks of ancient Greece: a literary giant in the Hellenistic period, leader of the Alexandrian school, model of poetic craft for Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, and others. But up to now the path to his greatness has been hard for Greekless readers to follow. Nourished in a venerated poetic tradition, scholarly and allusive, he preferred "the trickling dew from a mountain's holy spring" to the muddy current down river. This translation--clear-flowing, graceful, witty--revives a fading giant. A literary triumph Library Journal

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, by D.S. Carne-Ross
      Introduction
      Part I. Hymns
      Part II. Epigrams
      Part III. Fragments
      Notes

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