CALLIMACHUS & His CRITICS By ALAN CAMERON/ANCIENT GREEK POETRY/GREECE/ RARE 1995
Item History & Price
CALLIMACHUS AND HIS CRITICS. BY ALAN CAMERON. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. First Edition. Scarce.
A nice copy of this scarce and interesting thick First Edition book.
Published over 20 years ago, this book is now out-of-print and hard-to-find.
NOTE: I AM SELLING A FINE COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS ON ANCIENT GREECE & ROME FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROF. ANN ELLIS HANSON. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY LISTINGS.
From the Dust Jacket: "Callimachus has a...ctually been seen as the architypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the first time, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works, and interregulationships oof most of the other leading poets of the age."
According to wikipedia: "Alan Douglas Edward Cameron, FBA (13 March 1938 – 31 July 2017) was a British classicist and academic. He was Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York. He was one of the leading scholars of the literature and history of the later Roman world and at the same time a wide-ranging classical philologist whose work encompassed above all the Greek and Latin poetic tradition from Hellenistic to Byzantine times but also aspects of late antique art"
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Thick and heavy Octavo - sized Hardcover book in Dust Jacket; xiv+534 pages of text. Near Fine condition: no writing or markings in the text; no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings. Original publisher's hardcover binding, with almost no wear. Very Good+ condition dust jacket with light wear. A nice copy of this scarce book.
Please look through my other auction listings- I have listed many scarce and unusual books this week on ebay. Please bid on more than one book, because I will be happy to reduce shipping costs for multiple purchases; media mail postage is $5 for this listing, and $1 for each additional book that you win from me. International bids welcomed, international airmail postage $35; Canadian airmail postage $25.
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A nice copy of this scarce and interesting thick First Edition book.
Published over 20 years ago, this book is now out-of-print and hard-to-find.
NOTE: I AM SELLING A FINE COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS ON ANCIENT GREECE & ROME FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROF. ANN ELLIS HANSON. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY LISTINGS.
From the Dust Jacket: "Callimachus has a...ctually been seen as the architypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by fellow poets and scholars. Abundant evidence, much of it assembled here for the first time, suggests a very different story: a world of civic festivals rather than books and libraries, a world in which poetry and poets played a central and public role. In the course of the argument, Cameron casts fresh light on the lives, dates, works, and interregulationships oof most of the other leading poets of the age."
According to wikipedia: "Alan Douglas Edward Cameron, FBA (13 March 1938 – 31 July 2017) was a British classicist and academic. He was Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York. He was one of the leading scholars of the literature and history of the later Roman world and at the same time a wide-ranging classical philologist whose work encompassed above all the Greek and Latin poetic tradition from Hellenistic to Byzantine times but also aspects of late antique art"
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Thick and heavy Octavo - sized Hardcover book in Dust Jacket; xiv+534 pages of text. Near Fine condition: no writing or markings in the text; no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings. Original publisher's hardcover binding, with almost no wear. Very Good+ condition dust jacket with light wear. A nice copy of this scarce book.
Please look through my other auction listings- I have listed many scarce and unusual books this week on ebay. Please bid on more than one book, because I will be happy to reduce shipping costs for multiple purchases; media mail postage is $5 for this listing, and $1 for each additional book that you win from me. International bids welcomed, international airmail postage $35; Canadian airmail postage $25.
hanson
