This book explores both how Plato challenged existing literary forms, principally Homeric epic, and how later literature then created ‘classics’ out of some of Plato’s richest works. It will appeal…

Examines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The critical readings offered embrace not just the central figures of Callimachus, Theocritus…

This study explores the Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome. Close readings of the most familiar poetry of the age…