TY - BOOK ID - 4821015 TI - Callimachus in context : from Plato to the Augustan poets AU - Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin AU - Stephens, Susan A. PY - 2011 SN - 9781107008571 1107008573 9780511919992 9781107470644 1107470641 1139152939 110722201X 1139160486 9786613728081 1139157663 1139155911 0511919999 1139159437 1139161482 1280886773 9781139159432 9781139161480 9781139157667 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics, Ancient. KW - Esthétique ancienne KW - Callimachus KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Appreciation KW - Alexandria (Egypt) KW - Alexandrie (Egypte) KW - Intellectual life. KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Esthétique ancienne KW - Aesthetics, Ancient KW - Callimachus Cyrenaeus KW - Callimaco KW - Callimaque KW - Kallimachus KW - Kallimachos KW - Kallimachos van Kyrene KW - Iskandarīyah (Egypt) KW - Alexandrie (Egypt) KW - Aleksandriyah (Egypt) KW - Alessandria (Egypt) KW - Alexandreia (Egypt) KW - Aleksandria (Egypt) KW - Alexantreia (Egypt) KW - Alesandriʼa (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (مصر) KW - اسكندرية (Egypt) KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Callimaque (0305?-0240? av. J.-C.) KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Kallimakh KW - Kālīmākhūs al-Qūrīnī KW - Qūrīnī, Kālīmākhūs KW - Calímaco KW - Kallimach KW - Καλλίμαχος UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4821015 AB - Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often understood as metapoetic. This study aims to situate these Callimachuses within a series of interlocking historical and intellectual contexts in order better to understand how they arose. In this narrative of his poetics and poetic reception four main sources of creative opportunism are identified: Callimachus' reactions to philosophers and literary critics as arbiters of poetic authority, the potential of the text as a venue for performance, awareness of Alexandria as a new place, and finally, his attraction for Roman poets. ER -