Callimachus and His Critics

Alan Cameron

Callimachus and His Critics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
30 May 2017
Pages
548
ISBN
9780691629445

Callimachus and His Critics

Alan Cameron

Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art’s sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the first time, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals

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