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,
“... birth-date as any. Other references suggest that he may still have been writing after 240. But as Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan Stephens write in Callimachus in Context, it is clear at least that he ‘lived the majority of his adulthood during the reign of the second Ptolemy (282-46), the period when the Ptolemaic empire was at its height’. He was ... ”
