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Theocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also
active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic
genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned
poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a generation earlier by
Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashioning traditional literary
forms in original ways through tightly organized and highly
polished work on a small scale (thus the traditional generic title
Idylls: "little forms"). Although Theocritus composed in a variety
of genres or generic combinations, including encomium, epigram,
hymn, mime, and epyllion, he is best known for the poems set in the
countryside, mostly dialogues or song-contests, that combine lyric
tone with epic meter and the Doric dialect of his native Sicily to
create an idealized and evocatively described pastoral landscape,
whose lovelorn inhabitants, presided over by the Nymphs, Pan, and
Priapus, use song as a natural mode of expression. The
bucolic/pastoral genre was developed by the second and third
members of the Greek bucolic canon, Moschus (fl. mid second century
BCE, also from Syracuse) and Bion (fl. some fifty years later, from
Phlossa near Smyrna), and remained vital through Greco-Roman
antiquity and into the modern era. This edition of Theocritus,
Moschus, and Bion, together with the so-called "pattern poems"
included in the bucolic tradition, replaces the earlier Loeb
Classical Library edition by J. M. Edmonds (1912), using the
critical texts of Gow (1952) and Gallavotti (1993) as a base and
providing a fresh translation with ample annotation.
This book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third
to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to
make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection
of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible
elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of
poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams
and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical
background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language
and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have
been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection
has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text
(Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in
length.
Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging
writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for
those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a
selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the original Greek
illustrating his range, wit and literary sophistication. Texts
include both more and less well-known texts such as The Dream, The
Fly, Timon, A Literary Prometheus, Sigma versus Tau and Dialogues
of the Sea-Gods. The Introduction discusses his place in the Second
Sophistic and his relationship to Cynic philosophy, and each
section of commentary is preceded by a literary appraisal. The
commentary is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and
graduate students.
Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging
writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for
those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a
selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the original Greek
illustrating his range, wit and literary sophistication. Texts
include both more and less well-known texts such as The Dream, The
Fly, Timon, A Literary Prometheus, Sigma versus Tau and Dialogues
of the Sea-Gods. The Introduction discusses his place in the Second
Sophistic and his relationship to Cynic philosophy, and each
section of commentary is preceded by a literary appraisal. The
commentary is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and
graduate students.
Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers
in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the
Hellenistic period, and had a profound effect on the subsequent
course of Greek and Roman literature. The hymns are intricate,
allusive and difficult poetry, and need elucidation for the modern
reader. Dr Hopkinson has established a new text of Callimachus'
Sixth Hymn, The Hymn to Demeter, which is printed here with a
facing English translation. In his thorough analysis of the poem it
is the editor's aim to show how Callimachus adapts and borrows from
Homer and other early poetry to form a new type of poetic diction.
The introduction has full discussions of the poem's ritual setting,
of its extraordinary inset narrative, and of Callimachus' treatment
of dialect and metre. The extensive commentary elucidates
difficulties in the text and treats critical, linguistic and
stylistic points with reference to the Latin and later Greek
hexameter writers. This is the first full edition of and commentary
on the work in English. It will be welcomed by Greek scholars and
those interested in Greek and Roman poetry.
This volume presents the Latin text, with an Introduction and full commentary, of Book XIII of the Roman poet Ovid's long work Metamorphoses. It discusses in detail Ovid's treatment of his sources and sets out the ways in which he adapted earlier literature as material for his novel enterprise. Guidance is offered on points of language and style, and the Introduction treats in general terms the themes of metamorphosis and the structure of the poem as a whole.
Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers
in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the
Hellenistic period, and had a profound effect on the subsequent
course of Greek and Roman literature. The hymns are intricate,
allusive and difficult poetry, and need elucidation for the modern
reader. Dr Hopkinson has established a new text of Callimachus'
Sixth Hymn, The Hymn to Demeter, which is printed here with a
facing English translation. In his thorough analysis of the poem it
is the editor's aim to show how Callimachus adapts and borrows from
Homer and other early poetry to form a new type of poetic diction.
The introduction has full discussions of the poem's ritual setting,
of its extraordinary inset narrative, and of Callimachus' treatment
of dialect and metre. The extensive commentary elucidates
difficulties in the text and treats critical, linguistic and
stylistic points with reference to the Latin and later Greek
hexameter writers. This is the first full edition of and commentary
on the work in English. It will be welcomed by Greek scholars and
those interested in Greek and Roman poetry.
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.D. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts.
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