Benjamin Acosta Hughes: 2 books
Callimachus in Context
From Plato to the Augustan Poets
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
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...
by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Apollonius of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s
Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress...