A Hellenistic Anthology

An annotated selection of Hellenistic Greek poetic texts, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded in this second edition.

Neil Hopkinson (Edited by)

9781108472401, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 October 2020

360 pages, 3 maps
22.2 x 14.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.53 kg

'I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.' James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

This book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.

1. Introduction
2. The apparatus criticus
Commentary
Appendix. Doric dialect
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Poetry anthologies [various poets DCQ]