Callimachus in context: from Plato to the Augustan poets

Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a...

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Beteiligte Personen: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- (VerfasserIn), Stephens, Susan A. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919992
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919992
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919992
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919992
Zusammenfassung:Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often understood as metapoetic. This study aims to situate these Callimachuses within a series of interlocking historical and intellectual contexts in order better to understand how they arose. In this narrative of his poetics and poetic reception four main sources of creative opportunism are identified: Callimachus' reactions to philosophers and literary critics as arbiters of poetic authority, the potential of the text as a venue for performance, awareness of Alexandria as a new place, and finally, his attraction for Roman poets
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 328 Seiten) Karten
ISBN:9780511919992
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511919992