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Summary:

"Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world center of literature, science, and scholarship; and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose on an astounding variety of subjects, including the Pinakes, a descriptive bibliography of the Library's holdings in 120 volumes. Callimachus' vast learning richly informs his poetry, which ranges broadly and reworks the language and generic properties of his predecessors in inventive, refined, and expressive ways. The 'Callimachean' style, combining learning, elegance, and innovation and prizing brevity, clarity, lightness, and charm, served as an important model for later poets, not least at Rome for Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the elegists, among others. This edition, which replaces the earlier Loeb editions by A. W. Mair (1921) and C. A. Trypanis (1954, 1958), presents all that currently survives of and about Callimachus and his works, including the ancient commentaries (Diegeseis) and scholia. Volume I contains Aetia, Iambi, and lyric poems; Volume II, Hecale, Hymns, and Epigrams; and Volume III, miscellaneous epics and elegies, other fragments, and testimonia, together with concordances and a general index. The Greek text is based mainly on Pfeifer's but enriched by subsequently published papyri and the judgment of later editors, and its notes and annotation are fully informed by current scholarship." -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• I. Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems
• II. Hecale, hymns, epigrams
• III. Miscellaneous epics and elegies, other fragments, testimonia.

Author/Creator:

Callimachus , author

Contributors:

Clayman, Dee L. , editor, translator

Languages:

English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Language Notes:

Ancient Greek with English translation; critical matter in English.

Main Work:

Callimachus [by Callimachus]

Included Works:

Aetia [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Aetia [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Iambi [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Iambi [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Lyrica [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Lyrica [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Hecale [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Hecale [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Hymns [by Callimachus] (Complete) (English; (Clayman))

Hymns [by Callimachus] (Complete) (Greek; (Clayman))

Epigrams [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Epigrams [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Carmina epica et elegiaca minora [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Carmina epica et elegiaca minora [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Fragments [by Callimachus] (English; (Clayman))

Fragments [by Callimachus] (Greek; (Clayman))

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Aetia [Callimachus] (Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2022 — OCLC Number 1350932448)

Related Series:

Works [of Callimachus] (Complete); 1-3 (English; (Clayman))

Works [of Callimachus] (Complete); 1-3 (Greek; (Clayman))

Loeb classical library; [volume] 129

Loeb classical library; [volume] 421

Loeb classical library; [volume] 550

Subjects:

Callimachus — Translations into English

Callimachus

Epigrams, Greek

Greek literature

Greek poetry

Hymns, Greek (Classical)

Iambic poetry, Greek

Genres:

Translations

Epic poetry

Epigrams

Iambic poetry

Lyric poetry

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 17 cm.

Call Numbers:

PA3945 .A2 2022

ISBNs:

9780674997349 (volume 1, hardcover)
0674997344 (volume 1, hardcover)
9780674997332 (volume 2, hardcover)
0674997336 (volume 2, hardcover)
9780674997493 (volume 3, hardcover)
0674997492 (volume 3, hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022904856

OCLC Numbers:

1363832925