Greek poetry of the Imperial Period
Subtitle: an anthology
By: selected and edited by Neil Hopkinson.
Contributors: Hopkinson, Neil.
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Greek poetry.
Description: This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.
Notes: Text in English and Greek.
Includes indexes.