Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens — Brill's Companion to Callimachus

Leiden / Boston, Brill, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover bound in Imperial octavo format, little discernible wear to the pictorial covers, bright interior, unmarked but for faint remains of penciled notations erased. Publisher's flaw to bottom of p. 8, dissipating toward book's front. From the personal library of the influential Classicist Peter Morris Green. Stated First Edition. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens, and with contributions by them individually and by Giulio Massimilla, Annette Harder, Maria Rosaria Falivene, Filippomaria Pontani, Nita Krevans, Peter Parsons, Markus Asper, Silvia Barbantani, Evelyne Prioux, Gregor Weber, RIchard Hunter, Ivana Petrovic, Lucia Prauscello, Allen J. Romano, Andrew Morrison, Giovanni Benedetto, Ruth Scodel, Emanuele Lelli, Adele=Teresa Cozzoli, Marco Fantuzzi, Chrisophe Cusset, Yannick Durbec, Mark Payne, Alessandro Barchiesi, Claudio De Stefani and Enrico Magnelli, Mario Citroni, and others. The ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian at Alexandria (c. 310-240 BCE) supposedly wrote some 800 works, only a fraction of which (prose and poetry) survive, but these and his aesthetic philosophy became popular with the Romans and his influence is considerable. This massive reference with contributions from major scholars in the field is surprisingly scarce. xviii, 708 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine