"In this important new study of Callimachus' enigmatic Iambi,
Acosta-Hughes displays a range of talents which qualify him as a
true modern interpreter of this difficult Hellenistic poet.
Functioning by turns as historian, commentator, and critic,
Acosta-Hughes gives readers of Callimachus a fresh perspective on
both the archaic models for the Iambs and the novel ways
Callimachus deploys and organizes his reactions to his
predecessors. Especially noteworthy (and something which
distinguishes this study from earlier work on the Iambi) is the
focus on groups of related poems, allowing the author to explore
different facets of the Iambic tradition in some detail. This book
does for Callimachus' Iambs what Hunter's 'Theocritus and the
Archaeology of Greek Poetry' did for the Idylls."--Nita Krevans,
University of Minnesota
"Acosta-Hughes, in this newest appraisal, has bypassed the
initial handicap posed by the physical state of the Iambi through
substantial exploration of the tradition of Callimachus' motives
(the story of their uses, meanings, and contexts). As a result, our
knowledge of the poems as whole entities is much improved.
Acosta-Hughes organizes the units of his book not poem by poem but
thematically. The output is splendid: it is indeed as if
Callimachus had paved the way for his implied reader to read the
Iambs diagonally. Acosta-Hughes's "dispositio" manages to
'regulate' Callimachus' polyeideia by pointing out the main
interests underlying the Iambs and providing them with coherence
and self-referentiality. At the same time it also highlights the
fact that Callimachus shares the 'strong' interests of his iambic
verses with his declared model Hipponax, far more than has
beenusually assumed. Rediscovery, no less than renovation, proves
once again to be the key issue underlying even the most
unconventional Hellenistic poetry."--Marco Fantuzzi is the author
(with Richard Hunter) of "Muse e Modelli: la poesia ellenistica da
Alessandro Magno ad Augusto
"Long neglected by modern critics, The Book of Iambs is a
central text in Callimachus' "sweet competition" (fr. 202.45 Pf.)
with the Hellenic past. This patient and brilliant exercise in
reconstruction offers many new insights on the fragments and
explains the importance of the work in Graeco-Roman literary
history. "--Alessandro Barchiesi, author of "The Poet and the
Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse
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