Callimachus’ Muses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20077571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Morrison (0000-0002-3457-6863, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 329-348 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion To Callimachus (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004216976_018 |
| OpenAlex | W4241565509 |
| ISBN | 9789004216976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper examines the relationship Callimachus has with the Muses by investigating their role and function in a number of different texts, especially the Aetia. The Muses are an important way for poets to talk about the qualities of their own poetry and in Aetia 1–2 Callimachus builds on the depiction of the Muses in earlier poets and their capacity to provide inspiration or information to portray himself as participating in an active and engaged conversation with the individual Muses in turn. The individualized Muses in Aetia 1–2 reflect the ongoing process of specialization as to the province of each Muse which led to the traditional division into the ‘Muse of History’, etc. Callimachus did not persist with the framework of the Muse-dialogue in Aetia 3–4, but we should not think of Callimachus as therefore rejecting the Muses in Aetia 3–4, but as showing the relationship of poet to Muse from a different perspective from that in Aetia 1–2
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Depiction · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Communication · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |