The Hymns of Callimachus: Translated From the Greek Into English Verse, With Explanatory Notes; To Which Are Added, Select Epigrams, and the Coma ... and the Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus

by Callimachus, William Dodd

Excerpt from The Hymns of Callimachus: Translated From the Greek Into English Verse, With Explanatory Notes; To Which Are Added, Select Epigrams, and the Coma Berenices of the Same Author, Six Hymns of Orpheus, and the Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus
It cannot be expeeted, that matters lhould be much better in this particular with our author, who is but a modern, in comparifon of Homer, and who lived, though in an age of polite learning, yet, in the very darkeft times of Paganifm. Notwithftanding, this, by fome means or other, he has mixed in the prefent hymns, feveral particulars well deferving notice, and which may fully fatisfy the reader of the fitnefs of the key above-given to open the heathen mythology. Spanhelm has proved, beyond controverfy, that he was no {tranger to the LXX tran ation of the Et'h/e an Opinion which the fol lowingobfervations will, Iimagine, abundantly confirm, as to remember it, in the perufing of them, will be of fervice to me, as well as my readers. I have been f0 large in my notes, that there is little occafion to fay more on this fubjeei: and as I have provided a copious index, it will be eafy to refer to any particular.
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390 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) (Greek: Καλλίμαχος, Kallimakhos) was a poet, critic, and scholar at the Library of Alexandria. He was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya.