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Callimachus in Context - From Plato to the Augustan Poets (Paperback)
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Callimachus in Context - From Plato to the Augustan Poets (Paperback)
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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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