Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics: A Hellenistic Anthology (Paperback)

Fellow in Classics Neil Hopkinson; P E Easterling; Philip Hardie
Cambridge University Press
 9780521314251
0-521-31425-9

An anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries B.C., the so-called Hellenistic period. Hopkinson makes available to undergraduates a selection of texts that are not easily accessible.

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elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams, and epics. An introduction sets the poetry in its cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of the language and reference in the texts.