This volume is an edition of the fragments of the Greek epic and elegiac poet, Antimachus of Colophon (ca. 400 B.C.), an important figure linking the literatures of Archaic and Classical Greece with that of the Hellenistic Age.
The first complete edition (with commentary) in almost sixty years eof the fragments of the Greek epic and elegiac poet Antimachus, this book examines his significant role in the history of Greek poetry and literary scholarship.
... Anti- machus of Colophon . Antimachus was a distinguished man in various ways . The author of an important critical edition of the text of the Homeric poems , he was himself an epic poet second only in the general estimation to Homer ...
... Antimachus either at Athens or in Asia Mi- nor . A similar anecdote to that related by Cicero is also told of the poet Antagoras of Rhodes , who likewise wrote a Thebais , and Welcker has adduced good ... ANTIMACHUS . ANTIMACHUS .
... Antimachus , but whether p . 171 , ed . Bekker . ) they belong to Antimachus of Heliopolis , or to either of the two other poets of the same name , cannot be ascertained . ( Düntzer , Fragm . der Episch . Poes . von Alexand . , & c . p ...
... Antimachus ( c.400 B.C. ) . A contrast is drawn in the commentary between the text under discussion , where Antimachus , like Theophrastus , referred to the Styx as being in Arcadia ( Antimachus fr . 173 Wyss = F16 Matthews ) , and ...