A Hellenistic Anthology / Edition 1

by Neil Hopkinson

Overview

A wide representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epics is supplemented by a cultural and historical introduction and commentary clarifying problems of language and text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521314251
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/11/1988
Series:	Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'This A Hellenistic Anthology - now issued as a second edition, with a greater contribution from Theocritus - is a welcome addition to the Green-and-Yellow series. The Introduction manages to convey a lot of information in a relatively short space … We then have the Commentary. [Hopkinson] introduces each poet, at greater or lesser length with a terse bibliography. The notes are a model of their kind: relevant, concise, precise … This is unequivocally excellent.' Colin Leach, Classics for All

‘I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.’ James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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