LEADER 03955oam 22006014 450 001 996201335503316 005 20150123152300.0 010 $a0-674-99463-9 035 $a(CKB)3820000000011929 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001417954 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11873683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001417954 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11365092 035 $a(PQKB)10548047 035 $a(OCoLC)899735945 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000521 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000011929 100 $a20141025d1973 my p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAetia$eIambi ; Hecale and other fragments /$fCallimachus ; edited and translated by C. A. Trypanis. Hero and Leander / Musaeus ; edited by Thomas Gelzer ; translated by Cedric Whitman 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v421 300 $aIncludes indexes. 330 $aFragments by Callimachus (third century BCE) include those from the Aetia, Greek aetiological stories; a book of Iambi; and the epic poem Hecale. Hero and Leander by Musaeus (fifth or sixth century CE) is a short epic poem.$bCallimachus of Cyrene, born ca. 310 BCE, 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. 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 (no. 129) of the Loeb Classical Library. In the present volume are included fragments of the Aetia (Causes), aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs; fragments of a book of Iambi; 147 fragments of the epic poem Hecale, which described Theseus's victory over the bull which infested Marathon; and other fragments. We have no explicit information about the poet Musaeus, author of the short epic poem on Hero and Leander, 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 Paraphrase of the Psalms of Pseudo-Apollinarius which can be dated to the period 460-470. Musaeus takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovid's Heroides (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 Odyssey and Plato's Phaedrus. He draws too on the Hymns of Proclus and the Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St. John by Nonnus. He was most probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory. 606 $aGreek poetry$xTranslations into English 606 $aGreek poetry 606 $aGreek poetry$3(OCoLC)947503$2fast 606 $aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$3(OCoLC)947510$2fast 606 $aHero (Greek mythology)$3(OCoLC)955551$2fast 606 $aLeander (Greek mythology)$3(OCoLC)994788$2fast 615 0$aGreek poetry$xTranslations into English. 615 0$aGreek poetry. 615 7$aGreek poetry 615 7$aGreek poetry, Hellenistic 615 7$aHero (Greek mythology) 615 7$aLeander (Greek mythology) 676 $a881/.01 700 $aCallimachus$0161836 702 2$aMusaeus$cGrammaticus, 702 $aTrypanis$b Constantine A.$g(Constantine Athanasius),$f1909-1993, 702 $aGelzer$b Thomas 702 $aWhitman$b Cedric Hubbell 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996201335503316 996 $aAitia$914478 997 $aUNISA