A Hellenistic Anthology

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

Informationen zum Autor Neil Hopkinson is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he teaches classical languages and literature. He has contributed three other volumes to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, of which he is now a Series Editor. Klappentext An annotated selection of Hellenistic Greek poetic texts, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded in this second edition. Zusammenfassung Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help with the background to these writers and with the Greek of these often allusive and challenging works. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and substantially expanded. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.

Autorentext
Neil Hopkinson is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he teaches classical languages and literature. He has contributed three other volumes to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, of which he is now a Series Editor.

Zusammenfassung
Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help with the background to these writers and with the Greek of these often allusive and challenging works. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and substantially expanded.

Inhalt

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