Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World by Simon Hornblower

Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World

Simon Hornblower

288 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary poetry challenging medium-paced
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This volume takes as its subject one of the most important Greek poems of the Hellenistic period: the Alexandra attributed to Lykophron, probably written in about 190 BC. At 1474 lines and with a riddling narrative and a preponderance of unusual v...

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