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Callimachus, A. S. Hollis (Ed. )

CALLIMACHUS: HECALE Edited with Introduction and Commentary Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 1990

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Year of publication
1990
Author
Callimachus, A. S. Hollis (Ed. )
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
Callimachus Poetry & Poets Greek Literature
Cover description
Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0198140444
First edition
Yes

Description

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has light edgewear. ; 416 pages; This edition presents and examines in detail the Hecale of Callimachus, perhaps the most brilliant, imaginative, and enjoyable example of Greek poetry in Ptolemaic Alexandria. Set in Attica and full of local color, the poem describes how the hero Theseus was entertained by an old woman, Hecale, on the night before he captured the monstrous bull at Marathon. Drawing on important new discoveries, this edition contains the most complete and up-to-date collection of texts and testimonia on the Hecale and discusses allusions to and imitations of the poem in later Greek and Latin poetry.