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Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams, Lycophron and Aratus (Loeb Classical Library No. 129) (edition 1921)

by Callimachus, Lycophron, Aratus, A. W. Mair (Translator), G. R. Mair (Translator)

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Callimachus (third century BCE) authored Hymns and Epigrams. The monodrama Alexandra is attributed to his contemporary, Lycophron. Phaenomena, a poem on star constellations and weather signs by Aratus (c. 315-245 BCE), was among the most widely read in antiquity and one of the few Greek poems translated into Arabic.… (more)
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Title:Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams, Lycophron and Aratus (Loeb Classical Library No. 129)
Authors:Callimachus
Other authors:Lycophron, Aratus, A. W. Mair (Translator), G. R. Mair (Translator)
Info:Loeb Classical Library (1921), Edition: 2nd, Hardcover, 496 pages
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Λυκόφρων descries a mind that is intense and clever like that of a wolf. Lycophron's "Alexandra" is so astute as to have aroused the invidia of Byzantine critics.
Καλλίμαχος, whose name reads 'fighting nobly', was responsible for the cataloging of that famous Library of Alexandria which was a bulwark against obscurantists.
Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς means the desirable (or wanted) man from Soli. Aratus' "Phaenomena" was translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero "in his early youth."
  LochItes | Dec 5, 2009 |
These two Callimachus Loebs date from 1958, and Loeb have no plans to publish new editions. That is disgraceful! ( )
  FuficiusFango | May 16, 2009 |
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Callimachusprimary authorall editionscalculated
Aratusmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Lycophronmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Henderson, JeffreyDirectorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mair, A. W.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mair, G. R.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Callimachus (third century BCE) authored Hymns and Epigrams. The monodrama Alexandra is attributed to his contemporary, Lycophron. Phaenomena, a poem on star constellations and weather signs by Aratus (c. 315-245 BCE), was among the most widely read in antiquity and one of the few Greek poems translated into Arabic.

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