This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, th

"This is a collection of free translations from the ancient Greek poet Callimachus, whose surviving work includes the Aitia, a narrative elegy; the Iambi, short

This book offers a detailed discussion of Callimachus' collection of Iambi, arguably one of the earliest surviving Greek 'books of poetry'. There are chapters o

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