J. L. Lightfoot, Hellenistic Collection. Philitas-Alexander of Aetolia-Hermesianax-Euphorion-Parthenius. Edited and translated by J. L. L., Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 666, ISBN 978-0-674-99636-6
2012; Volume: 15; Linguagem: Inglês
10.33776/ec.v15i0.1177
ISSN2173-6839
Autores Tópico(s)Classical Antiquity Studies
ResumoLightfoot's most welcome anthology assembles in a volume of more than 650 pages the "minor" Hellenistic poets from the early third to the first century BC: Philitas of Cos, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax of Colophon, Euphorion of Chalcis, and Parthenius of Nicaea.A common point with all these authors is the fact that only fragments of their works have been transmitted to us, although it is usually admitted that they were important representatives of the Hellenistic literature -not unknown authors whose works are fragmentary, but poets who, along with Callimachus, Apollonius, and Theocritus, shaped Hellenistic poetry: Philitas exerted a great influence on the following Alexandrian poets; Alexander was a famous poeta grammaticus; Hermesianax is the author of the most substantial fragment of the (otherwise lost) Hellenistic elegy; Euphorion was popular at Rome and much read by the Late Antique literates (Nonnus above all), and Parthenius was a very influential model among Latin elegists.L. is a well known scholar in the field of Hellenistic and Late Antique poetry, and the author of the most authoritative edition of Parthenius (Oxford 1999).Three of the poets whom L. deals with have been recently (and accurate-
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