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Název:		Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments.; Musaeus: Hero and Leander (Loeb Classical Library No. 421)
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Rok vydání:		1973
Identifikátory:		9780674994638

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Anotace:	<p> Callimachus of Cyrene, born ca. 310 <span class="era">BCE</span>, after studying philosophy at Athens, became a teacher of grammar and poetry at Alexandria. Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (reigned 285–247) made him when still young a librarian in the new library at Alexandria; he prepared a great catalogue of its books.</p><p> Callimachus was author of much poetry and many works in prose, but not much survives. His hymns and epigrams are given with works by Aratus and Lycophron in another volume (<i>no. 129</i>) of the Loeb Classical Library. In the present volume are included fragments of the <i>Aetia</i> (Causes), aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs; fragments of a book of <i>Iambi</i>; 147 fragments of the epic poem <i>Hecale,</i> which described Theseus's victory over the bull which infested Marathon; and other fragments.</p><p> We have no explicit information about the poet Musaeus, author of the short epic poem on <i>Hero and Leander</i>, except that he is given in some manuscripts the title Grammatikos, a teacher learned in the rhetoric, poetry and philosophy of his time. He was obviously a follower of the Egyptian poet Nonnus of Panopolis, of the fifth century AD, and his poem seems also to presuppose the <i>Paraphrase of the Psalms</i> of Pseudo-Apollinarius which can be dated to the period 460–470.</p><p> Musaeus takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovid's <i>Heroides</i> (Epistles 18 and 19), but he presents it in a quite different manner. Among the literary antecedents to which this learned grammatikos expressly alludes, the most prominent are Books 5 and 6 of the <i>Odyssey</i> and Plato's <i>Phaedrus.</i> He draws too on the <i>Hymns</i> of Proclus and the <i>Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St. John</i> by Nonnus. He was most probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory.</p>
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