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Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter by Callimachus 9780521265973
Booksplease Price: £102.21Callimachus 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... -
Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter by Callimachus 9780521604369
Booksplease Price: £45.31Callimachus 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... -
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments by Callimachus
Booksplease Price: £28.58Having found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. -D.S. Carne-RossA Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic... -
A Light Chop in Protected Waters by Calvin Jones 9798218213527
RRP: £17.63Booksplease Price: £16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218213527Author Calvin JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint < -
A Light Chop in Protected Waters by Calvin Jones 9798218171674
RRP: £36.74Booksplease Price: £33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218171674Author Calvin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn: The Bath of Pallas by Callimachus 9780521119993
Booksplease Price: £41.37Callimachus 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... -
Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn: The Bath of Pallas by Callimachus 9780521264952
Booksplease Price: £122.05Callimachus 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... -
Callimachus by Richard Rawles 9781474254861
Booksplease Price: £77.37Callimachus was one of the most important Greek poets, and can also be one of the most rewarding to read. He was an important figure in the history of ancient literature and an influential presence... -
Callimachus' Iambi by Clayman 9789004060630
Booksplease Price: £21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004060630Author ClaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
Callimachus: The Hymns by Susan A. Stephens 9780199783045
Booksplease Price: £41.15Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt 9780691180199
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems by Callimachus
Booksplease Price: £25.31The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria,... -
The Poems of Callimachus by Frank Nisetich 9780198152248
Booksplease Price: £72.77This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, the range of his achievements, and the... -
Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia by Callimachus
Booksplease Price: £25.31The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria,... -
Callimachus: The Epigrams: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Susan A. Stephens 9783110770452
RRP: £127.50Booksplease Price: £81.99Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new... -
Callimachus and His Critics by Alan Cameron 9780691606125
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Callimachus 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... -
The Works Of Hesiod, Callimachus And Theognis by J Banks 9781498106603
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £39.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498106603Author J BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint -
Hymns 1, 2, 5, 6 by Callimachus 9780929524054
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524054Author CallimachusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9781350288119
Booksplease Price: £30.84In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus,... -
Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Booksplease Price: £95.79Scholarly 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... -
Hymn to Delos: Introduction and commentary by W.H. Mineur by Callimachus 9789004072305
Booksplease Price: £63.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004072305Author CallimachusFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint -
Callimachus Revisited: New Perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship by J.J.H. Klooster 9789042938502
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £96.96This special volume of the Hellenistica Groningana, in honour of the achievements and career of Professor M.A. Harder, revisits the poetry of Callimachus (theme of two earlier... -
Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9781107470644
Booksplease Price: £35.47Scholarly 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... -
Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9780520220607
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £59.14This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of... -
Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition Celia Campbell 9780299348748
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach... -
The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets by Peter Bing
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.74Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph, The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the... -
The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome by Richard Hunter 9780521691796
Booksplease Price: £33.50Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the... -
Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9781350286016
Booksplease Price: £117.05In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus,... -
Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome Paul Chrystal 9781836390497
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell 9780520302877
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the... -
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXVIII by A. Benaissa 9780856982668
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.95Graeco-Roman Memoirs Volume 109 This volume presents the first fruits of the research project Hexameters Beyond the Canon: New Poetry on Papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt, funded by the Arts and... -
A Guide to Hellenistic Literature Kathryn Gutzwiller (University of Cincinatti) 9780631233220
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.71This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the... -
Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position by William Fitzgerald
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how... -
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum by K. J. Dover 9780520302143
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.26Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the... -
Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens 9780520229730
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.44When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and... -
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum by K. J. Dover 9780520414761
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the... -
Herodas: The Mime and Fragments by W. G. Headlam 9781853996245
Booksplease Price: £41.09The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence 9780691227184
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.32Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the...