A Hellenistic Anthology

Neil Hopkinson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

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Cambridge University Press
29 October 2020

Poetry anthologies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient Greek

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

This book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.

Edited by: Neil Hopkinson (Trinity College Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781108459563
ISBN 10: 1108459560
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 29 October 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for A Hellenistic Anthology

'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