The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets

Michigan Classics Press
1988
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"Tradition 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 Hellenistic Poets, chases this idea through the thickets of
Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos . 

Authors

  • Peter Bing

Publication Type

  • Book

ISSN/ISBN

0979971306