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Roman Callimachus
No full textComprehensive survey of the importance of Callimachus in Classical Roman poetry and of the transformations of his texts through allusive manipulation, appropriation, and poetological discussion
Callimachus Rediscovered in Papyri
No full textA sketch history of the recovery of Callimachus' lost work
SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: POLYPHONY IN CALLIMACHUS’ HYMNS
No full textPolyphony in Callimachus is often a strategy of persuasion: adopting a plurality
of points of view in the presentation of an argument makes that argument
more authoritative—especially when the authority of at least some of these
points of view can be taken for granted. This paper investigates a few examples
of the frequent overlapping of the authorial voice of Callimachus with
different Callimachean voices impersonating or allusively evoking a series of
more or less peremptory figures—a literary critic in defense of his poetics,
the vox populi, the director of a ritual for a god, the god himself, or a series
of saviors of the past. The paper concludes with an argument that the editor
of Callimachus’ Hymns (Callimachus himself?) may have hidden behind the
authority of Callimachus the “theologian”
Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition
No full textThis 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 thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English, along with line-by-line commentary, notes, and literary analysis. The structure of the book is thematic, with chapters focusing on such topics as poetic voice, fable, ethical criticism, and statuary. Each chapter consists of an introduction, text and selected critical apparatus, translation, and comprehensive thematic discussion. Acosta-Hughes focuses especially on Callimachus' manipulation of traditional features of archaic iambic poetry such as persona loquens, ethical and critical message, and eristic dialogue. He also includes a detailed analysis of the Alexandrian poet's artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and Hipponax. Polyeideia will interest not only readers of Greek and Hellenistic poetry but also readers of Roman satire and invective verse, as well as those intrigued by the processes of memorializing and fashioning poetic culture
Callimachus and the elegiac tradition
No full textInvestigation into some elegiac passages of Callimachus, in order to explore how he both imitated and distanced himself from his archaic elegiac model
Callimachus and the Atthidographers
No full textAfter tracing a history of the modern studies about Atthidography since Wilamowitz, the paper examines the role of some authors of local chronicles devoted to Athens and Attica (Atthidographers) in Callimachus' poetry, especially in the "Aetia" and "Hecale"
Callimachus on Kings and kingship
No full textIn Aetia fr. 1,3-5 Pfeiffer Callimaco si lamenta che i suoi avversari, i Telchini, lo accusano di non scrivere "un poema continua in molte migliaia di versi", che celebri "re ed eroi." Callimaco ha scelto di celebrare re e eroi, ma in una poesia che sia sottile, breve, allusiva, colta e ironica. I re contemporanei compaiono in particolare negli inni a Zeus, ad Apollo e a Delo, mentre le regine sono in primo piano negli Aetia. Esiodo è il modello più importante di Callimaco per la costruzione di un'immagine del re giusto da cui emanano ricchezza, prosperità e pace. Di recente si è anche messo in luce che nella poesia dotta alessandrina, specialmente in Callimaco, possano esservi allusioni anche a simboli ed elementi della regalità egiziana.In Aetia fr. 1.3-5 Pfeiffer Callimachus complains that his adversaries, the Telchines, accuse him of not writing “one continuous poem in many thousands of verses”, celebrating “kings and heroes.” Callimachus did choose to celebrate kings and heroes, but in poetry that is subtle, short, allusive, learned and ironic. Contemporary kings occur particularly in the hymns to Zeus, Apollo, and Delos, while queens are more prominent in the Aetia. Hesiod is Callimachus’ most important Greek model in constructing an image of the just king from whom wealth, prosperity and peace flow. A number of scholars have also argued that Egyptian models of kingship may be in play as well, though filtered through Greek texts
NOTES ON THE FRAGMENTS OF CALLIMACHUS
No full textIn this paper the author discusses and explains the text of several Callimachus’ Fragments
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