Don’t be a braying ass
Peter Green: Callimachus, 20 December 2012
Callimachus in Context
by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan Stephens.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £60, January 2012,978 1 107 00857 1 Show More
by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan Stephens.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £60, January 2012,
Brill’s Companion to Callimachus
edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens.
Brill, 726 pp., £160, July 2011,978 90 04 15673 9 Show More
edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens.
Brill, 726 pp., £160, July 2011,
Aetia
translated and edited by Annette Harder.
Oxford, 362 pp.. and 1061 pp., £225, May 2012,978 0 19 958101 6 Show More
translated and edited by Annette Harder.
Oxford, 362 pp.. and 1061 pp., £225, May 2012,
“... or about, Callimachus. One of the most fascinating essays in Brill’s Companion is the one by Luigi Lehnus chronicling this process of rediscovery. Yet when he claims that papyri ‘allowed 20th-century scholars from Wilamowitz to Pfeiffer and beyond to reconstruct full sections of Aetia, Iambi and the Hecale’, he is, understandably, being rather ... ”