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HYMNI (CUM SUIS SCHOLIIS GRAECIS) & EPIGRAMMATA
1577; Callimachus, Henri Estienne, Nicodemi Frischlini; First Critical Edition, First Printed Edition of Epigrams; Geneva Henricus Stephanus; Full Rebound Leather; Ancient Greek/Latin Text; Roman/Greek/Italic Type; 14/134/71 Pages, Blanks; w7.3"xh9.9"; Very Rare!!!
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ATTRIBUTES:
A Beautiful full leather cover design with stamped borders, raised bands/maroon label to spine, title page with woodcut Printer's device, with some woodcut headings/initials, and a Great Read!!!
BACKGROUND:
Callimachus (310/305–240 BC) was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian–Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes. Although he was never made chief librarian, he was responsible for producing a bibliographic survey based upon the contents of the Library. This, his Pinakes, 120 volumes long, provided the foundation for later work on the history of Greek literature. As one of the earliest critic-poets, he typifies Hellenistic scholarship.
Elitist and erudite, claiming to "abhor all common things," Callimachus is best known for his short poems and epigrams. During the Hellenistic period, a major trend in Greek-language poetry was to reject epics modelled after Homer. Instead, Callimachus urged poets to "drive their wagons on untrodden fields," rather than following in the well worn tracks of Homer, idealizing a form of poetry that was brief, yet carefully formed and worded, a style at which he excelled. "Big book, big evil" (μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν, mega biblion, mega kakon) is another saying attributed to him, often thought to be attacking long, old-fashioned poetry. Callimachus also wrote poems in praise of his royal patrons (such as Ptolemy II Philadelphus), and a wide variety of other poetic styles, as well as prose and criticism.
The extant hymns are extremely learned, and written in a style that some have criticised as labored and artificial. The epigrams are more widely respected, and several have been incorporated into the Greek Anthology.
CONDITION:
Condition is Good+/Very Good. Small wear to edges, few light marks/abrasion lines to boards, lighten spine, newer end pages, brown edge to first/last few pages, few blemishes to a couple pages, pages a bit age toned but very good, hinges/text block are very good for 440 years old!!!
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