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By G. O. Hutchinson
This large research of the Hellenistic poets of the third century B.C. presents a far wanted photo of the poetry of the interval whereas demonstrating its caliber and power. Hutchinson explores the paintings of such writers as Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes--developing a basic belief of poetry that facilities round the poets' dealing with of tone, point, and form--and deals a clean research of the effect of Hellenistic poetry on that of Rome.
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114 (The Statue of Delian Apollo) and frr. 178-85 (The Ician) cannot be accommodated in the colloquium with the Muses; but there is probably sufficient room for them both after the proem of Book 3. It is true that if frr. 178-85 preceded fr. 43 in Book 2, fr. 43. 12-17 would refer to the instruction imparted at the feast by the stranger, and fr. 43. 4 and] [6 would refer to Peleus. (The second point is made by H. Herter, Bursians Jahresb. G. ). Yet there are other possibilities with fr. 43, and it would be imprudent to accept the combination.
31 It is probable that Plutarch in his Greek Questions drew on local historians for other material reminiscent of the Aetia, as from Question 45 to the end. Similarly P. Oxy. 2688-9. 32 We do not know whether local historians were quarried much by poets before Callimachus. The most interesting author is Polycritus of Mende, who wrote a verse Sicelica which contained a paradoxon. , and would seem to have been used by Callimachus in his own paradoxography (FGrH 599 F 2, 4; SH 696, 697). On Rhianus see ch.
In this encounter between gods and mortal we see (in what is preserved) only voluble learning from the mortal, and from the gods business-like concentration on the facts. In the first sequence of the work Callimachus stated three conflicting genealogies for the Graces, and asked the Muses for the true version (Sch. Flor. 325, Pfeiffer i. 13; fr. ) In Book 2, shortly after an eloquent statement of the value of learning to him (fr. 43. 12-17), Callimachus asks the Muses why the founder of Zancle in Sicily is invoked without a name.