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The shadow of Callimachus : studies in the reception of Hellenistic poetry at Rome /
"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 greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries, stand at the hear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Roman literature and its contexts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries, stand 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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511260962 9780511261534 0511261535 051125976X 9780511259760 9780511260964 9780511618499 0511618492 1280749512 9781280749513 0511320469 9780511320460 0511260415 9780511260414 |