Clarendon Paperbacks: Hellenistic Poetry (Paperback)

Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature G O Hutchinson; Brian Hutchinson
Clarendon Press
 9780198147480
0-19-814748-1

This broad study of the Hellenistic poets of the third century B.C. provides a much-needed picture of the poetry of the period while demonstrating its quality and vitality. Hutchinson explores the works.

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of such writers as Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes--developing a general conception of poetry that centers around the poets' handling of tone, level, and form--and offers a fresh analysis of the influence of Hellenistic poetry on the city of Rome.