From Plato to the Augustan Poets
by
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Susan A. Stephens
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...